With input from your advisor, you will need to decide if you want to write to both areas or if you want to combine both areas into a single section under limitations. A thoughtful analysis of limitations and delimitations will help you when you get ready to write the discussion and recommendations in chapter five. Limitations deal with factors that may restrict or weaken the study. The following statements are examples of study limitations. The statement of delimitations addresses the decisions that were made by the researcher which narrowed the scope of the research project.
Delimitations also describe the populations to which the study can be applied.
The following statements are examples of study delimitations. The results of the study cannot be generalized to other populations. The training program may not meet the needs of other school systems or the needs of students in other grade levels. The summary paragraph presents an overview of the graduate project. The easiest way to summarize the project is to present the goal of each chapter in the graduate project.