Tuesday, 29 August 2017

14. Results


Now this is where the party is!

Finally! The suspense is killing your reader! After a focused introduction, targeted literature review and clear presentation of your method, it is now time to present your results. The previous sections respectively presented the context and motivations behind your work, the previous work undertaken in the field, as well as your approach to the work performed. The results, i.e. your contribution to the state of the art and the outcome of the work undertaken can now be presented.

The results are the starting point for your discussion and conclusion, coming later in the report, they therefore need to be complete, but not clutter your report. You therefore need to find a balance between concise results depicted in the main body of the report, and the detailed results in appendix, thus proving all the technical details needed by some of your audience.

Presenting results in an efficient and concise way is therefore vital, but can be challenging: graphs, tables and equations are among the best ways to present results, each will therefore be the topic of a separate article to further characterise their use as part of an academic and professional report.

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