Writing a Research Paper: The Results Section

Goal: Report the findings of your study. Don't get into what these results mean (in relation to your hypotheses), this comes later in the Discussion section!

Some General Suggestions:

1. If you have numerous analyses to report, include a brief orienting paragraph at the beginning of the results section that tells the reader what to expect, in order!
2. Decide before you start which results you will present in tabular format and which will be presented in the text. Try not to be redundant and report findings both ways.
3. Present your findings in logical order.

1. If you did tests for sex differences or the like simply to determine whether you needed to do subsequent analyses separate for males and females, present these results at the beginning of the Results section.
2. Likewise, present any tests of homogeneity of variance or normality assumptions first, before you tell the reader why a particular test was selected.
3. If you have one primary hypothesis and several more specific ones, present the results of the main hypothesis test first; then move on to discuss the ancillary findings.

4. Don't present a bunch of findings that are unrelated to your hypotheses unless you first give a brief statement about why the tests were carried out!

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