ABSTRACT
The first part of this chapter looks at how Discussion chapters are typically organized and provides a framework that will help students write this section of the thesis or dissertation. Basturkman and Bitchener (2005; Bitchener and Basturkman 2006) have discussed the difficulties second-language students have with this part of their thesis. Students often lack an understanding, they argue, of the function of this part of their thesis or dissertation. As one of the supervisors they spoke to said: they thought there was a tendency for students to give more weight again to their own interpretations rather than use other academic texts to make or to support their claims (Bitchener and Basturkman 2006).
