Very often, you will have to write reports,
which are documents containing factual and
objective information that you have collected
through research. Analytical research reports,
which are written after having gathered important
information from primary research resources such as
surveys or experiments, rather than published documents,
present original data that you collect and analyse. Learning to write them well, especially
the Results and Discussion section, sometimes called Findings or simply Results, is an
important skill you will need to learn.
This chapter suggests ways to write the Results and Discussion section of analytical
reports in effective and convincing ways. To accomplish this, you will need to do the
following:
● Use text and visual aids properly
● Interpret results
● Use headings and sub-headings
● Use language of reporting appropriately
● Refer to figures correctly
4.1 Use Text and Visual Aids Properly