Provided Documents
Results
- Must be qualitative as well as quantitative
- Should give meaning to the data
- Present either by subject, or as a whole and follow up with discussion
- Cite figures and/or tables in the Appendix properly
- Clarify results
- Do not load down with excessive or unnecessary language
Discussion
- Provide accurate interpretation to reader
- Identify how this data relates back to your hypothesis
- Compare your results with other studies of a similar nature
- Use an active voice for the majority of the time
- Talk in the first person sparingly
- Address each section in the order you presented it in your results section
Conclusion
- Wrap up overall ideas of the article
- Give meaning to the overall meaning of the research process
- Conclude what you ultimately learned from the primary research
- Avoid rephrasing the thesis
- Avoid emotional appeals and overused stereotypical phrases
Researched Documents
How to Write a Research Paper – Results Section
- Summarize all relevant findings
- Make use of tables and figures when appropriate
- Connect the context of results with specific parts of hypothesis
- Use past tense and active tense when describing results
- Number figures and tables consecutively for better clarity and organization
Writing a Discussion Section
- Share personal interpretation of all work and results
- Conclude any open ended questions/results brought up in results section
- Limit graphs and figures, use only those relevant to your findings
- Potential to criticize results in comparison to others
- Compare to previous work done on the subject and possible use as support
- Connect discussion to points made in the intro methods section
Writing a Conclusion
- Attempt to answer all questions presented throughout the paper
- Summarize everything that your research has shown
- Reflect back on what you discussed in Introduction and hypothesis
- Discuss if the research has still left some questions unanswered
- Discuss whether or not the research will be relevant in the real world
REFERENCES
Caprette, D. (2007, Aug 20). Writing Research Papers. Retrieved March 31, 2010, from Rice University’s Website: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/tools/report/reportform.html.
Shuttleworth, M. (2009). Writing a Discussion Section. Retrieved March 31, 2010, from Experiment-Resources: http://www.experiment-resources.com/writing-a-discussion-section.html.
Shuttleworth, M. (2009). Writing a Conclusion. Retrieved March 31, 2010 from Experiment-Resources: http://www.experiment-resources.com/writing-a-conclusion.html.
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