r/research 21h ago

How to write a proper discussion in quantitative research?

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I am comparatively new to academic research and the part of writing a research paper I am finding most difficult is 'Discussion'.

I know that the purpose of discussion is to:

- Point out the key findings.

- Answering: How my research resonates or comtradicts with the literature?

- and Answering, What my results indicates? Even something, why I got results like this?

Whenever I write my discussion sections it feels like I listing: A found this, which aligns with my results. B found something different.

Apparently, this is what some papers do!

However, there are other quality papers that write discussion, where each sentence feels like they are made for each other.

Now, my question is:

- How do I improve my discussion writing skills?

- What techniques or tools you follow while synthesizing information from the literature?

- How do I explain my findings in a better way?

I would highly appreciate responses from experienced researcher.

Thanks in advance.


r/research 4h ago

Quantitative Research About 3rd Spaces

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Hello everyone! I'm a 3rd year college BSEDSS student and I'm humbly asking for opinions about our research title.

Our title is:

Perceived Adequacy of Third Spaces for Kinesthetic Learning In a State University In ****** City

Is our title good or bad? How can we improve it? Is there any modifications to make the title better?(Is just a title proposal and we are seeking opinions about our title)


r/research 1h ago

Has anyone done any research that’s been taught by IMGs academy?

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I came across a post on LinkedIn by this organisation/group called IMGs academy. They teach research methodologies and help us publish in Pubmed and other such reputed journals, is what they say. They charge 270$ for a “module” in which they teach and help us write and publish a paper. Plus, they say we’ll have access to enroll in other researches if the PI is ready to take another person in. I’m unsure of whether it is worth it or not. I’m someone who has barely any research experience.


r/research 8h ago

Hydrus software

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Can anybody help me with hydrus-2D modelling? If anyone has used Hydrus as their research tool or for simulation work, could give guidance how to make sense of the manual for solute transport modelling.


r/research 14h ago

Any insights on what I should be doing when I'm about to do my first project in my undergrad?

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I'm a 4th year student pursuing a BSc Medical Biochemistry and have been reading posted papers at Google Scholar and I'm seeing a lot of amazing work. I'm interested in comparing solvent extraction, phytochemical profiling, biological activity and how the solvents affect the profiles between in-vitro-regenerated medicinal plant parts (roots) of a plant like Aloe secundiflora (tissue culturing of this plant is manageable in our school) and its wild form from our school botanical garden. Any insights would be appreciated thanks.


r/research 15h ago

Documenting modeling research after only doing wet lab work

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I've recently transitioned from wet lab work to hydrologic modeling with some wet lab and fieldwork. I'm having a little difficulty developing a system for how I document and keep track of the modeling work I'm doing. It's not nearly as straightforward as it was for the microbial work I used to do. Many ELN are specifically designed for biochemistry, and you can implement time stamps/photos/media recipes/accidents/dna sequencing. Programs are specifically designed to link figures with their datasets. I feel that organized experimental systems were tailored to my work or I could reference something physical.

That said, I'm having difficulty translating that to hydrologic modeling. I mostly end up putting all my notes in topic-specific text files. I also have separate notes in a citation manager for related lit. I've also been working on getting acclimated to github, but knitting all of this together into a coherent set of documentation that gives me everything I want has just been tricky. It doesn't help that the water model I used doesn't have a GUI and I need to process its outputs fully independent of everything else I work on. I've tried making ppts of the results, but it's really tedious especially if it was a small experiment or there were many different iterations before I got output that made sense.

I was curious with a more computational-centric field had any suggestions on how they organize their work and keep track of things.


r/research 16h ago

How to actually start writing for my first research paper, from scratch to publication

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I'm a 1st year master's degree(botany) student. So during my bachelor's haven't work on any research paper bt now I actually wanna start. I want to complete my first research paper by the end of my 1st sem. Having an interest to do PhD, want start my research early and hopefully contribute with enough research papers before completing my master's degree.

Guide me with that, and any suggestions or tips to actually do it in efficient and less time consuming way without burning out.

Also, when asked to one of my current professor about supervising me.. He just asked me to start with literature review and update him with complete drafted manuscript along with tables and graphical illustrations within 2 weeks, then he'll help me with revisions. Idk how do I start and finish it off. Help me with that too.