Methods and Data · Lesson 25 of 33
Making sense of your results
From results to meaning
Getting results is one thing. Explaining what they mean is the heart of your dissertation, and it must be your own thinking. This is exactly the part AI must not do for you.
AI can still help you think it through, as a sounding board:
My finding is: [state your result plainly].
What are some possible explanations for this? What questions should I ask myself
about it? Do not write my discussion for me.
Use its questions to push your own interpretation deeper. Then write the discussion yourself. The reader wants to know what you think your results mean, not what a machine guessed.
Practice
State one of your results in a sentence. Use the prompt above to get questions to consider. Answer those questions in your own words, in a short paragraph.
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