Another step back

“The discussion is where you’re taking a further step back. And now you are looking at your results as a single piece of evidence in full detail. Now, taken together with the other findings, how does it fit into the larger group of studies or pieces of evidence of what you’re writing? You are ultimately writing for a critical audience that you are trying to convince. You are constantly moving up and down what we call the ladder of abstraction. Having those levels of abstraction along the way of explaining your ideas, it helps your audience. And it helps yourself to clarify your own thinking, too.”

(Matt Farmer)