8 Tips to Write Thesis Discussion

Nov 15, 2022

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Dr Tushar Chauhan

The discussion chapter is an important and crucial part of your thesis. Here are some of the tips to write it effectively.

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Start with stating your research problem and elaborately, explain your research question. So that readers will get a brief idea.

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Enlist your key results and correlate them with the existing knowledge.

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Discuss the literature in support of your findings. This makes your foundation strong. Use only recent findings and literature.

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Discuss the literature which doesn’t support your findings. Acknowledge your limitations and briefly discuss them.

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Discuss ideas to overcome the present limitations and also explain why you have not included them.

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Summarize your outcomes and make a conclusive statement.

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Take care of technical parameters. Understand when to use present and past tense. The length of the discussion chapter should be 50 pages.

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Use figures, tables and illustrations whenever needed to justify your point or statement.

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These are some common points for writing an excellent discussion chapter for your dissertation. I hope you like this story. Please share it.