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. 专业.专注 . . word完美格式 . Discussions The term discussion has a variety of meanings in English. In academic writing, however, it usually refers to two types of activity: a) considering both sides of an issue, or question, b) considering the results of research and the implications of these. Discussion sections in dissertations and research articles are probably the most complex in terms of their elements. The most common elements and some of the language that is typically associated with them are listed below: ? Background information (reference to literature or to research aim/question) A strong relationship between X and Y has been reported in the literature.Prior studies that have noted the importance of ....In reviewing the literature, no data was found on the association between X and Y.?As mentioned in the literature review, ....?Very little was found in the literature on the question of ....?This study set out with the aim of assessing the importance of X in ....The third question in this research was ......It was hypothesized that participants with a history of ....The present study was designed to determine the effect of .... Statements of result (usually with reference to results section) The results of this study show/indicate that ....This experiment did not detect any evidence for ....On the question of X, this study found that ....The current study found that ....The most interesting finding was that ....?Another important finding was that ....The results of this study did not show that .../did not show any significant increase in ....In the current study, comparing X with Y showed that the mean degree of ....In this study, Xs were found to cause ....?X provided the largest set of significant clusters of ....It is interesting to note that in all seven cases of this study.... Unexpected outcome Surprisingly, X was found to ....?Surprisingly, no differences were found in ....One unanticipated finding