SCI论文写作(五)Discussion
Discussion部分应当包括以下几点:
1:本研究的重要性及独特之处
①首先,需要对文章工作中重要的研究发现进行简明重述或者评述。这些结果是否支持文章的原始假设,它们多大程度上回答了前言里面提出的研究问题,或者实现了你所陈述的研究目的?
②对文章工作的主要研究活动进行总结,并对主要的研究假设进行讨论。
2:跟前人研究的关系和比较
结合相关文献,对研究结果进行解释和延伸推断,不要忘了引用这些参考文献。
3:本研究未回答的问题或还需要继续研究的问题
①说明文章研究工作的条件范围和局限性,并以此来界定和强调文章研究发现适用的范围。
②文章的研究结果的推广,这些结果在一个更大领域的适用性。
③基于本文研究发现,对于将来研究的建议,或者建议如何可以把这些发现应用到实际中来。
Discussion写作的顺序:
1.总结:发现陈述研究结论,即实验证实了自己的科学假设
①引出问题:In this study, we demonstrated that xxx(hypothesis)
2.解释:如何证实了科学假设,证实到哪种程度
②回答问题:To clarify the effect xxx, we performed xxx(研究内容,研究方案和手段)
③总结结论:Collectively, our data demonstrate that xxx(即对自己的hypothesis进行确认)
3.比较:对比自己相对于该领域其他研究者的异同,一致的列出文献,不一致的探讨原因。争议越大,越有意义。同时,坑越深。
4.提炼:提炼研究意义,创新型,临床转化价值。
5.局限性:写的不好小心审稿人让你补数据。
6.展望:是否具有普遍性,进一步深入研究的可能
例句:
1.背景:提及参考文献
2.背景:提及科学问题
3.总结本文中的重要结果,强调文章的重要性
4.总结出乎意料的结果,强调本研究的新颖性
5.与前人的研究结果比较(支持性的结果)
6.与前人的研究研究结果比较(不一致)
7.对结果进行解释说明
8.说明文章研究工作的条件范围和局限性
9.基于本文研究发现,提出假说
10.强调本文可能的应用范围
11.对文章中的结果进行评述
12.对未来研究的展望
13.动词的正确使用
1.背景:提及参考文献
Several reports have shown that …
As mentioned in the literature review, …
Prior studies that have noted the importance of …
Very little was found in the literature on the question of …
Previous studies evaluating X observed inconsistent results on whether …
A strong relationship between X and Y has been reported in the literature.
In reviewing the literature, no data was found on the association between X and Y.
2.背景:提及一些科学问题
The third question in this research was …
An initial objective of the project was to identify …
The first question in this study sought to determine …
It was hypothesized that participants with a history of …
The present study was designed to determine the effect of …
With respect to the first research question, it was found that …
This study set out with the aim of assessing the importance of X in …
3.提及本文中的重要结果,强调文章的重要性
One interesting finding is …
The current study found that …
Another important finding was that …
The most interesting finding was that …
In this study, Xs were found to cause …
The results of this study show/indicate that …
On the question of X, this study found that …
This experiment did not detect any evidence for …
The most important clinically relevant finding was …
X provided the largest set of significant clusters of …
It is interesting to note that in all seven cases of this study …
The most obvious finding to emerge from the analysis is that …
In the current study, comparing X with Y showed that the mean degree of …
The results of this study did not show that …/did not show any significant increase in …
4.出乎意料的结果,与预期不符的结果
Surprisingly, X was found to ….
What is surprising is that ….
One unanticipated finding was that ….
Surprisingly, no differences were found in ….
This finding was unexpected and suggests that ….
It is somewhat surprising that no X was noted in this condition ….
Contrary to expectations, this study did not find a significant difference between ….
However, the observed difference between X and Y in this study was not significant.
However, the ANOVA (one way) showed that these results were not statistically significant.
5.与前人的研究结果对比(支持性的结果)
This study confirms that X is associated with …
This finding was also reported by Smithet al. (1989).
This finding is consistent with that of Smith (2000) who …
Comparison of the findings with those of other studies confirms …
This also accords with our earlier observations, which showed that …
These results reflect those of Smithet al. (1992) who also found that …
Increased activation in the X in this study corroborates these earlier findings.
These results corroborate the findings of a great deal of the previous work in …
This finding broadly supports the work of other studies in this area linking X with Y.
In accordance with the present results, previous studies have demonstrated that …
It is encouraging to compare this figure with that found by Jones (1993) who found that …
Consistent with the literature, this research found that participants who reported using X also …
This study supports evidence from previous observations (e.g. Smith, 2006; Joneset al., 2011).
There are similarities between the attitudes expressed by X in this study and those described by …
These results :
further support the idea of …
confirm the association between …
are consistent with data obtained in …
match those observed in earlier studies.
are in line with those of previous studies.
are in agreement with those obtained by …
are in accord with recent studies indicating that …
seem to be consistent with other research which found …
are consistent with those of Smith and Jones (2015) who …
are in agreement with Smith’s (1999) findings which showed …
support previous research into this brain area which links X and Y.
corroborate the ideas of Smith and Jones (2008), who suggested that …
6.与前人的研究研究结果对比(不一致)
This study has been unable to demonstrate that …
However, this result has not previously been described.
This outcome is contrary to that of Smith et al. (2001) who found …
This finding is contrary to previous studies which have suggested that …
In contrast to earlier findings, however, no evidence of X was detected.
The yields in this investigation were higher compared to those of other studies.
However, the findings of the current study do not support the previous research.
Smith et al. (1999) showed that … This differs from the findings presented here …
The overall level was found to be 15%, lower than that of previously reported levels.
It has been suggested that … (Smith et al., 2002). This does not appear to be the case.
The levels observed in this investigation are far below those observed by Smithet al.(2007).
These results differ from X’s 2003 estimate of Y, but they are broadly consistent with earlier …
7.对结果进行解释说明
A possible explanation for this might be that …
Another possible explanation for this is that …
This result may be explained by the fact that …
There are, however, other possible explanations.
These relationships may partly be explained by …
There are several possible explanations for this result.
A possible explanation for these results may be the lack of adequate …
These differences can be explained in part by the proximity of X and Y.
These factors may explain the relatively good correlation between X and Y.
This inconsistency may be due to …
These results are likely to be related to …
This discrepancy could be attributed to …
It seems possible that these results are due to …
This rather contradictory result may be due to …
The observed increase in X could be attributed to …
It is difficult to explain this result, but it might be related to …
The possible interference of X cannot be ruled out.
It may be that these participants benefitted from …
Differences between X and Y may have influenced …
These possible sources of error could have affected …
There are two likely causes for the differences between …
The reason for this is not clear but it may have something to do with …
The observed correlation between X and Y might be explained in this way: …
Since this difference has not been found elsewhere it is probably not due to …
8.说明文章研究工作的条件范围和局限性
Another source of uncertainty is …
A note of caution is due here since …
These findings may be somewhat limited by …
These findings cannot be extrapolated to all patients.
These data must be interpreted with caution because …
It could be argued that the positive results were due to …
These results therefore need to be interpreted with caution.
In observational studies, there is a potential for bias from …
It is important to bear in mind the possible bias in these responses.
Although exclusion of X did not …, these results should be interpreted with caution.
However, with a small sample size, caution must be applied, as the findings might not be …
9.基于本文研究发现,提出假说
It is possible, therefore, that …
It can thus be suggested that …
In general, therefore, it seems that …
It may be the case therefore that these variations …
It is therefore likely that such connections exist between …
It is possible to hypothesise that these conditions are less likely to occur in …
These findings suggest that …
According to these data, we can infer that …
This observation may support the hypothesis that …
Hence, it could conceivably be hypothesised that …
The value of X suggests that a weak link may exist between …
These results provide further support for the hypothesis that …
Therefore, X could be a major factor, if not the only one, causing …
10.强调本文可能的应用范围
It can therefore be assumed that the …
An implication of this is the possibility that …
The present study raises the possibility that …
One of the issues that emerges from these findings is …
Some of the issues emerging from this finding relate specifically to …
These findings may help us to understand …
This finding, while preliminary, suggests that .…
This finding has important implications for developing …
This observational study suggests that a diet rich in X may help prevent …
These findings raise intriguing questions regarding the nature and extent of …
This combination of findings provides some support for the conceptual premise that …
11.对文章中的结果进行评述
These findings are rather disappointing.
However, these results were not very encouraging.
The test was successful as it was able to identify students who …
The present results are significant in at least two major respects.
The results of this study do not explain the occurrence of these adverse events.
These findings will doubtless be much scrutinized, but there are some immediately dependable conclusions for …
12.对未来研究的展望
This is an important issue for future research.
Research questions that could be asked include …
There are still many unanswered questions about …
Several questions remain unanswered at present.
Despite these promising results, questions remain.
Further work is required to establish the viability of…
Further research should be undertaken to investigate the …
There is abundant room for further progress in determining …
A further study with more focus on X is therefore suggested.
Future studies on the current topic are therefore recommended.
To develop a full picture of X, additional studies will be needed that …
In future investigations, it might be possible to use a different X in which …
Further studies, which take these variables into account, will need to be undertaken.
13.Discussion部分动词的正确使用:
大部分句子使用了动词+that从句的结构来对研究结果进行讨论,我们通过几个具体例子来说明不同动词的差别。
例1 Our experimental results demonstrate that the speed and acceleration both regulate the object movement in the outer space.
此句中的动词(demonstrate) 是明确有力的说明,跟从句中的动词(regulate)合在一起体现出作者对于所做的论证是非常有把握的。换句话说,他们认为文章中数据强有力的支持所做的论证。
例2 These results indicate that the movement of object Awill be determinedby the interaction between B and C.
词句的论述没有实例1中那么有力,indicate所传达的确定性没有demonstrate那么强。此外,that从句中使用了一般将来时,这表明了一个明确的因果关系。
例3 It appears that the recruited team has the capacity to function well under various conditions.
此例中主句使用了一个很弱的动词appears,表明作者的对于这种论证只是一种带有不确定性的推断。
例4 The presence suggests that the reactions may be stabilized by precisely regulating both temperature and pressure.
主句中的动词suggests同样表明了一种比较弱的确定性,从句中的情态动词may也使得推断的确定性降低,但确定性最低的是示例3。
文中的语句示例来自期刊主编为你解析论文中的“结果”和“讨论”有什么区别 - 知乎以及Academic Phrasebank | Discussing findings - Academic Phrasebank