12句话搞定Discussion

1Several reports have shown that …
2As mentioned in the literature review, …
3Prior studies that have noted the importance of …
4Very little was found in the literature on the question of …
5Previous studies evaluating X observed inconsistent results on whether …
6A strong relationship between X and Y has been reported in the literature.
7In reviewing the literature, no data was found on the association between X and Y.

1The third question in this research was …
2An initial objective of the project was to identify …
3The first question in this study sought to determine …
4It was hypothesised that participants with a history of …
5The present study was designed to determine the effect of …
6With respect to the first research question, it was found that …
7This study set out with the aim of assessing the importance of X in …

 1One interesting finding is …
 2The current study found that …
 3Another important finding was that …
 4The most interesting finding was that …
 5In this study, Xs were found to cause …
 6The results of this study show/indicate that …
 7On the question of X, this study found that …
 8This experiment did not detect any evidence for …
 9The most important clinically relevant finding was …
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11X provided the largest set of significant clusters of …
12It is interesting to note that in all seven cases of this study …
13The most obvious finding to emerge from the analysis is that …
14In the current study, comparing X with Y showed that the mean degree of …
15The results of this study did not show that …/did not show any significant increase in …

1Surprisingly, X was found to ….
2What is surprising is that ….
3One unanticipated finding was that ….
4Surprisingly, no differences were found in ….
5This finding was unexpected and suggests that ….
6It is somewhat surprising that no X was noted in this condition ….
7Contrary to expectations, this study did not find a significant difference between ….
8However, the observed difference between X and Y in this study was not significant.
9However, the ANOVA (one way) showed that these results were not statistically significant.

 1This study confirms that X is associated with …
 2This finding was also reported by Smith et al. (1989).
 3This finding is consistent with that of Smith (2000) who …
 4Comparison of the findings with those of other studies confirms …
 5This also accords with our earlier observations, which showed that …
 6These results reflect those of Smith et al. (1992) who also found that …
 7Increased activation in the X in this study corroborates these earlier findings.
 8These results corroborate the findings of a great deal of the previous work in …
 9This finding broadly supports the work of other studies in this area linking X with Y.
10In accordance with the present results, previous studies have demonstrated that …
11It is encouraging to compare this figure with that found by Jones (1993) who found that …
12Consistent with the literature, this research found that participants who reported using X also …
13This study supports evidence from previous observations (e.g. Smith, 2006; Jones et al., 2011).
14There are similarities between the attitudes expressed by X in this study and those described by …

 1further support the idea of …
 2confirm the association between …
 3are consistent with data obtained in …
 4match those observed in earlier studies.
 5are in line with those of previous studies.
 6are in agreement with those obtained by …
 7are in accord with recent studies indicating that …
 8seem to be consistent with other research which found …
 9are consistent with those of Smith and Jones (2015) who …
10are in agreement with Smith’s (1999) findings which showed …
11support previous research into this brain area which links X and Y.
12corroborate the ideas of Smith and Jones (2008), who suggested that …

 1This study has been unable to demonstrate that …
 2However, this result has not previously been described.
 3This outcome is contrary to that of Smith et al. (2001) who found …
 4This finding is contrary to previous studies which have suggested that …
 5In contrast to earlier findings, however, no evidence of X was detected.
 6The yields in this investigation were higher compared to those of other studies.
 7However, the findings of the current study do not support the previous research.
 8Smith et al. (1999) showed that … This differs from the findings presented here …
 9The overall level was found to be 15%, lower than that of previously reported levels.
10It has been suggested that … (Smith et al., 2002). This does not appear to be the case.
11The levels observed in this investigation are far below those observed by Smith et al. (2007).
12These results differ from X’s 2003 estimate of Y, but they are broadly consistent with earlier …

 1A possible explanation for this might be that …
 2Another possible explanation for this is that …
 3This result may be explained by the fact that …
 4There are, however, other possible explanations.
 5These relationships may partly be explained by …
 6There are several possible explanations for this result.
 7A possible explanation for these results may be the lack of adequate …
 8These differences can be explained in part by the proximity of X and Y.
 9These factors may explain the relatively good correlation between X and Y.
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11This inconsistency may be due to …
12These results are likely to be related to …
13This discrepancy could be attributed to …
14It seems possible that these results are due to …
15This rather contradictory result may be due to …
16The observed increase in X could be attributed to …
17It is difficult to explain this result, but it might be related to …
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19The possible interference of X cannot be ruled out.
20It may be that these participants benefitted from …
21Differences between X and Y may have influenced …
22These possible sources of error could have affected …
23There are two likely causes for the differences between …
24The reason for this is not clear but it may have something to do with …
25The observed correlation between X and Y might be explained in this way: …
26Since this difference has not been found elsewhere it is probably not due to …

 1Another source of uncertainty is …
 2A note of caution is due here since …
 3These findings may be somewhat limited by …
 4These findings cannot be extrapolated to all patients.
 5These data must be interpreted with caution because …
 6It could be argued that the positive results were due to …
 7These results therefore need to be interpreted with caution.
 8In observational studies, there is a potential for bias from …
 9It is important to bear in mind the possible bias in these responses.
10Although exclusion of X did not …, these results should be interpreted with caution.
11However, with a small sample size, caution must be applied, as the findings might not be …

 1It is possible, therefore, that …
 2It can thus be suggested that …
 3In general, therefore, it seems that …
 4It may be the case therefore that these variations …
 5It is therefore likely that such connections exist between …
 6It is possible to hypothesise that these conditions are less likely to occur in …
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 8These findings suggest that …
 9According to these data, we can infer that …
10This observation may support the hypothesis that …
11Hence, it could conceivably be hypothesised that …
12The value of X suggests that a weak link may exist between …
13These results provide further support for the hypothesis that …
14Therefore, X could be a major factor, if not the only one, causing …

 1It can therefore be assumed that the …
 2An implication of this is the possibility that …
 3The present study raises the possibility that …
 4One of the issues that emerges from these findings is …
 5Some of the issues emerging from this finding relate specifically to …
 6
 7These findings may help us to understand …
 8This finding, while preliminary, suggests that .…
 9This finding has important implications for developing …
10This observational study suggests that a diet rich in X may help prevent …
11These findings raise intriguing questions regarding the nature and extent of …
12This combination of findings provides some support for the conceptual premise that …

1These findings are rather disappointing.
2However, these results were not very encouraging.
3The test was successful as it was able to identify students who …
4The present results are significant in at least two major respects.
5The results of this study do not explain the occurrence of these adverse events.
6These findings will doubtless be much scrutinised, but there are some immediately dependable conclusions for …

 1This is an important issue for future research.
 2Research questions that could be asked include …
 3There are still many unanswered questions about …
 4Several questions remain unanswered at present.
 5Despite these promising results, questions remain.
 6Further work is required to establish the viability of…
 7Further research should be undertaken to investigate the …
 8There is abundant room for further progress in determining …
 9A further study with more focus on X is therefore suggested.
10Future studies on the current topic are therefore recommended.
11To develop a full picture of X, additional studies will be needed that …
12In future investigations, it might be possible to use a different X in which …
13Further studies, which take these variables into account, will need to be undertaken.