Blog 14
Results
Writing up Research: Results – This page breaks up the results section into topics concerning purpose, organization, advice, and others. It briefly summarizes what the results of a Methods section can mean and how it can be used. This source begins with an explanation of the actual purpose of the section along with short part about a common problem that is made when creating a methodology. The problem is sometimes people include too much unnecessary information that just repeats everything. It then moves into a section about organization and gives two different ways one could include all of the parts.
A Guide to Report Writing – This page has a whole section on the Results part of a Methods section. It is broken into three pages with a specific focus reserved for each page: Aim, which just explains what the results section is supposed to accomplish; descriptive statistics, talks about the introduction of the whole results section and how the research question must be repeated and then gives examples of how graphs and charts can be incorporated; the final section, analysis, discusses how to use the results for the paper’s benefit, it shows how to be more effective with the charts.
Discussion
How to Write Guide – This site explains the function of the discussion. It tells how the discussion should relate back to the lit review when using data the researcher has found. It asks if your findings show what other studies have shown. Including your own voice in this section is important, too; it keeps the dryness of this section down to a minimum.
How to Write Discussion page – This short page so far has been my favorite; it opens with a disclaimer stating that the purpose of research is to discover not to prove and it goes on to break up the discussion section into multiple paragraphs. Important parts such as stating what was found and then an explanation of what was found are necessary. Also, alternative explanations of results should be included.
Conclusion
Handouts and Links – This is the END of the paper… the last chance to give the paper some purpose. This site gives a whole slew of strategies for writing effective conclusions; it also shows strategies to avoid and just plain ineffective ones too. The section for strategies to avoid shows four strategies that I will certainly avoid using, they do a pretty good job as a deterrent.
Writing A Conclusion – This site shows how the conclusion of the paper imitates the introduction a bit. It takes the whole research question and rephrases it to fit into the paper’s entirety. It should review everything that was studied, what was found, what the hypothesis was, and a generalization of the results.
