Chapter 6 Results section of a research paper
Contents:
1. It provides the results of the investigation
described in the Method section.
information is given in the form of tables, charts, diagrams, lists, etc. that can help readers better understanding of the
findings.
3. panying each table, chart, etc. is a description/explanation.
Example 1:
The following tables show the frequency of clauses,
content words, and lexical density for the four samples in
this study. The first hypothesis was that there is no
significant difference between Sample 1 and Sample 2 in
relation to lexical density (parallel corpora). Based on the
statistics in Table 1 below, this hypothesis is rejected as
the statistical difference between the two means significant, ….
Table 1:Source Language (English)and target language(Chinese):
Text
Content w.
Clause No.
Clause No.
Lexical d.
Lexical d.
English
Chinese
English
Chinese
English
Chinese
1
253
274
32
45
2
391
457
41
60
3
467
517
75
79
4
323
389
60
66
5
346
399
39
59
6
299
376
35
51
Samples 1 and 2, parallel texts
Tables, charts, and diagram
Although it is possible to prepare tables, charts, diagrams, etc. by hand, nowadays more and more researchers use puter for this purpose.
Use of statistics
or science of numbers has e an integral part of research, especially in the quantitative approach.
projects require statistics to explain the significance of the findings.
-scale research projects there is no need to use advanced statistical methods.
The language of the Results
Several ways of reporting the results:
reporting verbs: show, indicate, reveal, report, describe, explain, etc.
tense form is an important feature of the verb.
3. Past tense forms are also used in some other cases where there is reference to results of previous resea
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