Results

The purpose of the 'results' section of research articles is to display the results of the experiment or study and to make some preliminary comments about those results. Results can be displayed in a visual way, using charts, graphs and so on, but writers usually accompany these graphics with text that summarizes the data for the reader and highlights the particular data which the writer is interested in for the purposes of the discussion. Sometimes, the results section is combined with the discussion section to produce a results and discussion section that provides a more detailed interpretation of the results as they are introduced.

[|Brett (1994)] identifies the following discourse functions in results sections:
 * 1) Referring the reader to data in figures and tables
 * 2) Objectively summarizing the data
 * 3) Commenting on the data


 * Examples**


 * 1) Referring the reader to data in figures and tables
 * 2) Objectively summarizing the data
 * 3) Commenting on the data