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Project Guidance for Students: Contextualising and Explaining Your Research Findings

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This is one of the most important parts of your dissertation; these links provide information on what a discussion should and should not be, how to structure it to best effect and how to link your findings to previously published work.
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  • How to write an effective discussion (http://www.rcjournal.com/contents/10.04/10.04.1238.pdf)
    Although it looks dull, this is definitely worth a look to produce a worthwhile, readable discussion section to your dissertation. Although written from a medical research point of view, all sections except clinical relevance may prove useful.
  • Writing the discussion ( http://creedd.org/writing_the_discussion.pdf)
    This site advises writing the discussion using the introduction as a starting point along with some background information and an effective ending to contextualise your findings.

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