Info: Here you can find an overview of the overall structure of a Social Science paper.

Present your results clearly. Either summarize them or categorize the most important results logically. In empirical works, results are usually presented in a separate chapter. In qualitative research, however, results and your interpretation (discussion) are often closely linked, so it may be useful to present them together.

Discussion of results

Make this discussion comprehensible by critically reflecting on your own results, considering possible objections, and discussing them.

In empirical works, you show how the results relate to each other and which principles can be identified. Address exceptions and consider how they should be interpreted. In any case, show how your results differ from or confirm the findings of others.

Whether texts “work” is first noticed by the readers. Go to writing consultation, ask your fellow students, or join a writing group to get text feedback. Discussing your results with others will make it easier to discuss them in your paper.

The discussion of your results is a mandatory part of the structure of a scientific paper.

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Writing the Conclusion

Info: Here you can find an overview of the overall structure of a Social Science paper. The final chapter of the paper contains a summary of the main statements of the work and possible conclusions derived from them. For a conclusion, you take up the research question, answer it in a summarized way, and provide …

• ending
• evaluation
• outlook
• overview
• review
• Summary

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• Genres & Structures

Contributors: Carola Gröhlich, Susanne Heidenreich, Maria Noll, Erika von Rautenfeld, Schreibzentrum, Dzifa Vode, Wolfgang Wahl

The Bibliography in the Social Sciences

Info: Here you can find an overview of the overall structure of a Social Sciences paper. General regulations The bibliography contains the complete bibliographic details of the sources cited in the text. The types of sources are not separated; instead, all sources are listed alphabetically in a single list. If you are unsure about the …

• citation
• citing
• directory
• index
• paraphrasing
• Quotation
• quotes
• references
• sources

Faculties: SW

• Citing & Layout

Contributors: Carola Gröhlich, Susanne Heidenreich, Maria Noll, Erika von Rautenfeld, Schreibzentrum, Dzifa Vode

This article was published in August 2025 and last updated in April 2025.