What do I write in the limitations section?

Depending on your particular department guidelines, limitations are usually written in two different sections of the paper.  Before you conduct the research, you need to determine what type of limitations you expect to encounter in your research.  Once you have finished your research, you need to report some unexpected limitations that you may have encountered.  An example of that could be the following scenario:

You expected your sample to be representative of the racial makeup of the United States, but your survey was limited to a certain number of questions so you left the question about race out of your survey.  Therefore, this is now a limitation of your study. 

This is just one possible example, but hopefully you get the point. 

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Welcome! This web site is dedicated to help those who need help with dissertation questions. I decided to start this site because I experienced a lack of support during my dissertation process. I hope that I can assist you with questions you may have about the process.