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Structuring The Results Chapter

This document provides guidance on writing the results chapter of a research paper. It discusses structuring the chapter with an introduction, headings organized by research questions, and a summary. Descriptions of findings should be the focus, with some interpretation, while analysis and synthesis belong in the discussion chapter. Results can be communicated through text, tables, graphs, and statistical measures, with justifications before visual aids. When presenting results, language should be passive voice and past tense, objectively reporting data and including some interpretation. Important findings should be signaled, participants' views reported, and excerpts introduced appropriately. The chapter should be summarized before discussing common errors.

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Structuring The Results Chapter

This document provides guidance on writing the results chapter of a research paper. It discusses structuring the chapter with an introduction, headings organized by research questions, and a summary. Descriptions of findings should be the focus, with some interpretation, while analysis and synthesis belong in the discussion chapter. Results can be communicated through text, tables, graphs, and statistical measures, with justifications before visual aids. When presenting results, language should be passive voice and past tense, objectively reporting data and including some interpretation. Important findings should be signaled, participants' views reported, and excerpts introduced appropriately. The chapter should be summarized before discussing common errors.

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RW – Session 6

Writing the results chapter


Should not mix the discussion and result chapter => language use is different

Result and discussion can be combined in one section

Result should be referred back to the research question, not the data sets

Triangulation – ex: interview and survey, information can be gained from observation (observation is
more accurate then interview and survey)

Triangulation: as long as the data set can help you to answer the question (qualitative and quantitative)

Simply qualitative >> name the headings from the research findings

Structuring the results chapter


 Introduction (presenting metatextual information)
 Headings organized in sequence according to the research questions (presenting results with
some interpretation + commenting on the result)
 Summary of the chapter
 Past tense – Active + passive

Describe, analyze and synthesize empirical findings

 Description (focus on this – include some interpretation)


 Analysis (should be presented in the discussion)
 Synthesis (should be presented in the discussion)

Communicating and displaying the analyzed data

1. Text (help you to communicate)


2. Tables (the first number is the chapter – the number of the order of table) [visual aid]
3. Graphs [visual aid]
4. Statistical measure [visual aid]

Before the visual aids, introduction is required.

Justify your points before present the visual aids.

Move 1 – presenting metatextual information

 Locating the chapter within the overall context


 Metatextual move:
 Previewing
 Linking
 Providing definitions
 Referring back to methodology
 Points to location of tables, figures, graphs

Move 2 – presenting results


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 Findings being presented in both figures and written text


 Language conventions
 Passive voice
 Past simple (steps of conducting the research)
 Present simple (recommend for the result)

Presenting the results

 Table 1 shows/ compares/ presents/ provides the summary statistic for … (before the table)
 The results of the correlation analysis are presented / can be compared/ are summarized in
Table 1.1. (before the table)
 As can be seen from the table 1.1 / As shown in Figure 1, some of the main characteristics of X…
(after the table)

The language of numbers

Digits: 4,568 people

Decimals: 0.85%

Six million people live there

Thousands of people were forced to move

Write whole numbers as words from one to ten and as digits above ten.

Ex: Five people normally work in the café, but at peak times this can rise to 14.

Be objective
The survey shows an overwhelming percentage …

Reporting and interpreting

Can interpret in some points when you write the report ( do not include to much interpretations >> save
for the discussion)
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Need an accurate number

Choose appropriate types of headings

 Topic heading (name of the specific points) – 2.2 Causes of errors


 Talking heading – 2.2.1 L1 influence…. / 2.2.2 The influence …

Reporting quotations from interviews

 No need to translate/ report word for word what the interviewees said
 Transcript enabling the reader to understand the core points
 Remove irrelevant phrases
 Remove filler words (ex: I mean, you know…)
 For incomplete utterance, complete if it was obvious
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Signaling important findings


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Reporting participants’ views


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Introducing excerpts

Summarizing the results section


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Common errors
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Common mistakes

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