Presenting Results
Natural and social scientists present present their findings in a thorough and structured manner. Generally speaking, writers of all disciplines order their results according to theme and chronology. However, depending on what type of data they have generated, writers follow somewhat different procedures. Here are some suggestions on how you may decide to order your results depending on if you are working with quantitative or qualitative data:
Further resources on presenting your results can be found in the subsequent section: Interpreting empirical findings.
It is worth noting that, in some disciplines, it is conventional to provide commentary on the results as they are presented (i.e. within the Results chapter or section). Consequently, it's not uncommon in some fields for the Results section and the Discussion section to be combined and presented under the heading "Results & Discussion". See our page on how a results chapter might fit into an overall thesis in Organisation Patterns.
Oxford Results Examples
Please follow the links below to disciplinary examples of how the above model is applied in texts written by Oxford students:
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