Strategy for writing a PhD thesis (for PhD in GBL or Game Design)

Descriptive (What it is and what it isn’t):

• Chapter 1 Introduction, 
• Chapter 3 Methodology, 
• Chapter 4 Design, Development and Validation of XYZ, 
• Chapter 5 Results (Quantitative - presents results of statistical analyses without or with little DISCUSSION) 

Critical (What’s wrong with what it is? Why there is a knowledge gap that your research can fill in?):

• Chapter 2 Literature Review
• Chapter 5 Findings (Qualitative - presents results of data analysis and then compare your results with published studies)
• Chapter 6 Discussion (a follow-up of Chapter 5 Results) 
• Chapter 6 / Chapter 7 Conclusions