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Development of the “Discussion” section in original research papers. A challenge for university teachers?

Abstract:

The article reports on how university teachers, aspiring researchers, have historically shown particular concern about writing original articles. One of the biggest challenges they face in this endeavour is the development of the discussion, the heart of the manuscript, as well as the most complex section, where the scientific strength of a researcher is put to the test. An observational, descriptive, and cross-sectional study was carried out to present the results of the identification of the main problems of a group of teachers in developing the “Discussion” section of scientific articles. The results show that all subcategories experienced a percentage reduction. The limitations and strengths of the study was the subcategory that had the greatest decrease, with 21.1%. In relation to the selection of the verb tense for the writing of the contents also experienced a decrease of 19.2%, with respect to the first revision. The remaining sub-categories experienced a smaller reduction (between 1.9% and 3.9%).