conclusion = implications + discussion = fits in to the broader picture + methods = replicate & road map

remember to break up your annotations + methods section addendum

Drake Gossi

Mar 31 at 11:24am

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Remember that you

• have two annotations due this Sunday, and also
• have to break them up into two audio files (I don't just want one 10 minute file; I want two clearly labeled files)

For the methods section, which is due this next Friday, not today, a week from today (see the schedule (Links to an external site.)), it's supposed to be 2 pages. I wanted to be consistent with the two pages across the board (the discussion, intro, conclusion, etc.), but, for the methods, I understand if it's, say, 1.5: the purpose of this particluar assignment (the methods section) is

• to generate a surplus of language that encompasses your search strategy, with the goal of being so generous with your reasoning that another researcher could exactly replicate your search process to find the exact same articles. That's the goal. Remember to watch the video to where I explain the whole thing (Links to an external site.). But also remember that the goal is 
• to do two things, the search strategy and the road map. Before, you wrote a draft of the road map. I want you to keep drafting it, though this time where it really belongs, which is in the methods/search strategy section. Same with the discussion section. The discussion section you wrote was a draft. You won't really even be able to finish it until you finish Berridge (2016), since only then will you know how your 10 results fit into the field, that source representing for us the field of public health. The discussion section is not a conclusion. Rather, again, it shows how your topic as you articulate it fits into the wider conversation about public health.

But, because of the nature of the search strategy, I can easily imagine people having trouble reaching a full two pages on this one. But stretch yourself. We want more language than we need.

The conclusion will go on to think through the implications of how "a" (your research, what you found to answer your question, etc.) fits into "b" (public health). 

Drake