Question: What information does a well-written discussion section provide?
In a well-written discussion section, the author returns to her purpose for doing the study and the research questions she sought to answer and/or the hypotheses she wanted to test and discusses what she has learned from the study. The author may speculate about the reasons the results turned out as they did, what they may imply, or how her study may relate to other studies, but if she does so, she must make it clear that she is speculating. It is also common for an author may discuss further questions that her research has generated.
V. FINAL REFLECTIONS
In this final section, you reflect upon the entire research process: how the focus of your research might have evolved and your goal and objectives might have changed; how the research plan you designed might have been improved; or how the procedures or tools you used might have given you better data. Of greatest importance, however, will be your reflections on what you have learned. What does your research tell you about the way you have been teaching or the way you thought you should teach? How has your research influenced the way you will teach in the future?
VI. APPENDIX
This section is optional. You may choose to place samples of your research tools and other such materials in the body of the paper, but if they interrupt the flow of your exposition, you might want to put them in an appendix and avoid the interruptions. You will be describing these materials and explaining their use in detail in the body of the paper, and readers can easily go the appendix if they want to see a sample of these materials.
Formatting Information
Font and size: Times New Roman, 14
Spacing: 1.5
Margins: Left (4 cms.); right, top, and bottom (2.5 cms.).
Use of Verb Tenses
1) Abstract--present for discussion of results and conclusions/past for describing results and procedures.
2) Statement of Intent—primarily present, other tenses when appropriate.
3) Literature Review—past and present perfect.
4) Procedures & Process—past.
5) Results & Discussion—past to report results/ present to discuss results and conclusions.
6) Final Reflections—primarily present, other tenses when appropriate.
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