Research in primary dental care Part 7: Writing up your research

Key Points

• Writing up the findings of your research is the last phase of the project, and the starting point for your future research. You may wish to write up your project for different audiences: Colleagues and patients in your practice; Funding bodies that supported your research; Readers of academic journals.

• Depending on the audience you are writing for, you should emphasise different aspects of your research, though all audiences will be interested in the answer you found to your research question.

• Publication of your research in academic journals is important to establish your contribution to our understanding of dentistry, and to allow the broadest possible community to benefit from your findings.

Key Points

Research in primary dental care

• 1 Setting the scene

• 2 Developing a research question

• 3 Designing your study

• 4 Measures

• 5 Devising a proposal, obtaining funding and ethical considerations

• 6 Data analysis

• 7 Writing up your research

Abstract

Writing up your research for publication is an important part of the research process, since it is through publication in all its forms that the wider community becomes aware of your contribution to knowledge. How the research is written up will depend to a large degree on your target audience; in this final paper we discuss writing up your research for members of your practice, funders of your research, and for publication in academic journals.

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