RESULTS

The purpose of the results section is to present only those results that are strictly necessary in order to justify your conclusions - your main message.

Both new and seasoned researchers can go wrong here.

• This is not the place to present all the data that you have collected.
• This is not the place to present the results of every bit of analysis that you have valiantly performed. The place for those is in your field or laboratory notebooks.

No doubt you have laboured for months (if not years) producing the results of your study. You know them intimately. You've looked at them in all kinds of ways. You are keen to show how well you've done, how you've thought of everything. You are dying to get this down on paper.