Thesis & Dissertation
Results Chapter
Report what you found. Save the meaning for the next chapter.
A results chapter has one job: show what the data says, clearly enough that a reader could disagree with your reading of it. Mixing interpretation in early is the usual error, and it costs you twice — the results read as biased and the discussion has nothing left to say. We format outputs to your style guide and keep the two jobs apart.
What you get
- Tables and figures that a reader can use unaided
- Every output labelled and referred to in the text
- Statistics reported in your style guide's format
- Findings ordered by research question
- Interpretation kept out until the discussion
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Discussion Chapter
Where your results stop being numbers and become findings.
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The Abstract
Two hundred words that decide whether anyone reads the other twenty thousand.
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