Writing the Discussion Section for Original Research Articles
A Guide to the Scientific Career: Virtues, Communication, Research, and Academic Writing, wiley, ss.523-526, 2019
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2019
- Doi Numarası: 10.1002/9781118907283.ch57
- Yayınevi: wiley
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.523-526
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Discussion section, Findings, Hypothesis, Original research articles, Researcher, Scientific writing
- Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The practice of writing a scientific paper is a required skill for every researcher. A scientific study starts with an idea that is developed into a testable hypothesis. A scientific paper, which follows a fairly rigid structure, includes various sections that are important for a new researcher to understand when attempting to shape his paper. The discussion section is considered to be the most important and often the most difficult section to write. There, the writer aims to explain what the findings mean and how they inform the research question posed in the introduction. The soul of the discussion section is in providing real objectivity in its approach to the study and its findings, self and nonself. The content to be written in the discussion section is what makes the researcher interested in pursuing the study in the first place. The discussion section is based on evaluating the possibility of the obtained results to answer the main research question. Including a final take-home message serves as a brief summary of the entire study into one or two sentences; this is the main piece of information that the reader should remember regarding the study. Presenting such a profound process simply and clearly is a task of both science and art at the same time.