School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Int J Nurs Educ Scholarsh. 2021 Mar 1;18(1):ijnes-2020-0057. doi: 10.1515/ijnes-2020-0057.
Article-based theses and dissertations are increasingly being used in nursing and the health sciences as an alternate format to the traditional five-chapter monograph. A unique chapter in the article-based thesis is the integrated discussion, which differs in breadth and depth as compared to the discussion for a traditional thesis monograph or journal article. For many students and faculty, the integrated discussion is a challenging chapter to write, with minimal or no published guidance available. In this article, we offer a four-step approach with templates for planning and writing an integrated discussion. We also share several lessons learned with examples from published theses and dissertations. Writing an integrated discussion can be facilitated and written more efficiently by developing a clear and detailed outline of the chapter and broad discussion points prior to drafting the text, to achieve a higher-level synthesis, analysis, and interpretation of the overall significance of the thesis findings.
基于文章的论文和学位论文越来越多地被用于护理和健康科学领域，作为传统五章专著的替代格式。在基于文章的论文中，一个独特的章节是综合讨论，与传统论文专著或期刊文章的讨论相比，其广度和深度有所不同。对于许多学生和教师来说，综合讨论是一个具有挑战性的章节，几乎没有或根本没有可供参考的出版指导。在本文中，我们提供了一个四步方法，并提供了模板，用于规划和编写综合讨论。我们还分享了一些经验教训，并提供了来自已发表的论文和学位论文的示例。通过在起草文本之前制定一个清晰而详细的章节大纲和广泛的讨论要点，可以更有效地编写综合讨论，从而实现对论文研究结果的整体意义进行更高层次的综合、分析和解释。
