e-resources on how to formulate research findings: study materials

 e-resources on how to formulate research findings: study materials:

It comes to my attention that some students have difficulties to formulate researching findings. This activity is vital for the execution of chain of evidence. There are several reasons for that (including chain of evidence design quality problems). Some useful e-materials are provided for my research students to study:

1. Reporting and discussing your findings.

2. How to write results and discussions (video).

3. How to write a dissertation results section (video).

Reflect on the ideas from these e-learning materials and see how these ideas could help you to formulate research findings and discussion findings for your chain of evidence execution task.

For ALRA dissertation report writing, the formulation of research finding (RF) statements and discussion finding (DF) statements is very much influenced by the commitments underlying the theoretical framework level-1c, particularly in the form of the chain of evidence design. These commitments establish the focus and priority for the construction of the RF and DF statements. Note that these RF/DF statements are made in dissertation report chapters 4 and 5, and subsequently referred to chapter 6: conclusions and recommendations.

When identifying and labelling findings, both for research findings and discussion findings, you probably need to: 

(1) consolidate a few minute findings that reveal a shared ontological and epistemological point associated with a common research objective as one research finding/ discussion finding: and,

(2) label the significant piece of findings as research findings or discussion findings, leaving the minute findings without finding labels (i.e. research finding 1, research finding 2, discussion finding 1, and discussion finding 2, etc.).

(3) come up with a terse label for each finding, e.g. discussion finding 3 (on customers being more price-sensitive), discussion finding 4 (on managers' preference for transactional leadership style).

Doing so enables the establishment of a clearly focused chain of evidence that can be comprehended by readers; it is thus better able to draw readers' attention on the prime considerations related to the management-concerns, research objectives and formulated recommendations of the dissertation project.