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condition than in the study-only condition.” No matter what the design, make sure Finally,
remember data are plural. Make sure your subject and verb agree in your sentences.
Discussion
Now that the results have been presented in detail in the results section, you will need to
briefly describe them again at the beginning of the discussion. How do you make sure this
section does not repeat the Results? Well, it needs to be less technical and more of a summary.
Start with the most important results first. In the discussion statistics should not be presented;
instead, simply describe the results clearly in words. Link the results back to your hypotheses,
indicating which ones were supported by your data.
Once you have described the results, describe the conclusions and implications you can
draw based on the data. It is important not to go beyond what you can claim based on your
specific results, but you do want to draw conclusions. Remember, as scientists we can never
“prove” anything. Instead, we can find evidence that supports or does not support a hypothesis.
At the end of the discussion for Experiment 1, describe potential limitations of
Experiment 1, and introduce Experiment 2. This section should provide a rationale for
Experiment 2, and the design of Experiment 2 should follow directly from the results and
limitations of Experiment 1.
“Experiment 2” is a level 1
header, as it is not meant to be a
Experiment 2
part of any of the previous
Level 2 header
sections. So, it gets its own line,
is in bold, and is centered
Method
Participants. This section is the same it was for Experiment 1. Once again, explain your
Level 3 header
sample in detail. Also, make sure to note whether any participants in Experiment 2 participated
in Experiment 1. If not, then you can say none of the participants in Experiment 2 participated in
Experiment 1. If you used the same population and recruitment methods for Experiment 2 as you
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