Blog #14
Results:
- Present results in a accessible way for the reader
- Explain charts and graphs in an explanatory text
- Do not simply repeat information in explanatory text and do not include to much info
from this article: http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=search-results
- Display results in a comprehensive way
- Categorize the information in an easily navigated organized way
- Include all results but do not over inform
Discussion:
- Interpret the results in light of what is already known about the subject of the investigation, and explain new understanding of the problem
- Use active voice
- Organize the discussion to address each of the experiments or studies
- Relate work to other studies
- DO NOT introduce new results
From this web site: http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/apa4b.htm#IIF
- Do not purposely start a new page for this section. Simply center the word Discussion and continue typing on the very next double-spaced line (i.e., do not insert any extra blank lines here).
- The purpose of this section is to evaluate and interpret the results, especially with respect to the original research question.
- Start off with a brief, non-technical summary of the results. In other words, tell the reader about the main findings without using statistical terminology.
- Then go on to discuss the implications of the results. In other words, whatever was found needs to be discussed.
- It is also important to discuss how the results relate to the literature you cited in the introduction. In other words, emphasize any theoretical consequences of the results.
- You might (or might not) also mention any limitations of the study and any suggestions for future research in this section.
- Finally, you need an ending paragraph in which you make a final summary statement of the conclusions you have drawn. You are also encouraged, when appropriate, to comment on the importance and relevance of your findings. How are your findings related to the big picture?
- Thus, this section should contain an absolute minimum of three paragraphs: the non-technical summary, discussion of the results and their implications, and the concluding paragraph.
Conclusions:
- Play the “So What” Game.
- Return to the theme or themes in the introduction
- Synthesize, don’t summarize
- Include a provocative insight or quotation from the research or reading you did for your paper
- Propose a course of action
- Point to broader implications
From this site: http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=83009&sid=615873
- Present the last word on the issues you raised in your paper
- Summarize your thoughts and conveys the larger implications of your study
- Demonstrate the importance of your ideas
- Introduce for your readers possible new or expanded ways of thinking about the research problem
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