1 Prior work has documented the eff ectiveness of psychosocial intervention in improving quality of life (QoL) and reducing In the Introduction, you wrote about the work of other researchers, creating a kind of research map for your readers so that they could see what type of work existed in this fi eld; in the Discussion/Conclusion you locate your study in relation to that research map. You then went on in the Introduction to locate a gap in the research or describe a problem associated with existing research; in the Discussion/Conclusion, you are expected to say to what extent you have responded to that gap or solved that problem. At the end of the Introduction you wrote about the present paper, creating an interface with the content of your own work so that you could move the reader on to the central report section of your paper; in the Discussion/ Conclusion, as we will see, it is common to begin by revisiting some aspect of your work, so as to create that interface in reverse and enable you to move away from the central report section. So as you can see, when we come to ask our three questions: • How do I start the Discussion/Conclusion section? What type of sentence should I begin with? • What type of information should be in this section, and in what order? • How do I end this section? although you may think that you have no idea of how to write the Discussion/Conclusion, you actually know a lot about what to include and in what order. Read the Discussion/Conclusion section below. Th e title of the paper is: Cognitive-behavioural stress management (CBSM) skills and quality of life in stress-related disorders. Don't worry if the subject matter is not familiar to you or if you have diffi culty understanding some of the words, especially technical terms such as Cognitive-Behavioural. Just try to get a general understanding at this stage and familiarise yourself with the type of language used.
Discussion/Conclusion — Structure 157 stress in patients suff ering from various disorders; Epstein,18 for example, reports that orthopedic patients participating in a two- week multimedia intervention programme improved across several QoL indices, including interpersonal confl ict and mental health.