Friday, June 5, 2015

Chapter 4 – Summary and Chapter 5- Introduction


As with the other chapters in your dissertation, Chapter 4 ends with a summary. This summary should be structured around your research questions. So list each question and summarize the answers you found in your study. You will then end with a transition to Chapter 5. 

Chapter 5 is the final chapter of your dissertation, while the end is in sight the work is not yet done! The chapter begins with a summary of the purpose of your study and why it was conducted. Resist the temptation to simply copy from earlier sections! You now have a very different view of the study then you did before you started, so take some time to rethink why you did it this specific study and summarize it. Next, you will summarize the findings from Chapter 4, again it should not simply be copied- reword it. 

Take a moment and think through what your results mean in the context of the literature. What have you added that we didn’t know before? Even if your study didn’t work, we know things that we didn’t know before you did it- whatever you tried doesn't apparently work. Keep these thoughts in mind and next time we will go on to Interpretation of Findings. 

Next time we will examine Chapter 5- Interpretation of Findings. Do you have an issue or a question that you would like me to discuss in a future post? Would you like to be a guest writer? Send me your ideas! leann.stadtlander@waldenu.edu

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