The way you present your research wrll depend on the nature of the research and the
audience. My own experience is very much focused in two areas: preparing students
for their academic dlssertation and presenting my own research in the form of
journal articles and conference papers. For the purposes of this chapter I am going
to focus on the presentation o[ a research dissertation, as this is the research report
that more often than not will be expected to cover every aspect of the, research
process. You will have to decide which elements to include and which to leave out
depending on the form o[ presentation you are preparing. Having said th4,t, even the
shortest of research papers will usually include a section on each stage in the process
depending at which stage in the research the paper is written.