How to Successfully Discuss the Results in an Academic Report

In an academic report, the Results section follows the methodology procedures performed in a given study, which describes exactly what the objectives are and how they are going to be categorized and further analyzed. Results formulate from an idea that is debated, built, and launched, as the infographic below displays.

Section One:

Section Two:

I believe that my team's way of concluding and writing the results from our research was very successful. First, we began our research assignment by distributing survey questions to five university students, and followed with an explanation of the methodology and as a team, gathered results from the survey. The Results discussion in our project displays a question asked on the survey with graphics of pie charts or bar graphs to show the respondents’ answers in percentages. Each graph has a description under the table of what exactly was being analyzed in the question, in order for users to better understand the context of the questions being asked in relation to the features being analyzed.

Our Results

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Content, Categorization of Information, and Social Media

1. Cosmopolitan

• 3 respondents answered that content on Cosmopolitan is important, 1 answered somewhat important, and 1 answered not very important

• All 5 respondents answered that entertainment news is most frequently talked about on the website

• 4 respondents answered that they use the platform Instagram to access

• Cosmopolitan’s content (aside from the website), while 3 answered Facebook, 2 answered Twitter, and 1 uses Snapchat.

2. CP24

• 2 respondents answered that content on CP24 is very important, 2 answered important, and 1 answered somewhat important

• All 5 respondents answered that they find local news is most frequently talked about on the website

• 4 respondents answered that they use the platform Facebook to access CP24’s content (aside from the website), and 2 answered with Twitter

3. FoxNews

• All 5 respondents answered that content on FoxNews is very important

• 3 respondents answered that they find global news most frequently talked about on the website, while 2 answered politics

• 3 respondents use the platform Facebook and 3 use Twitter to access FoxNews’s content (aside from the website), while 1 uses Instagram

To Conclude...

Following the Results discussion in our academic report was the section: Conclusion and

Recommendations. The Results section displays the results of the methodology

performed, and the Conclusion section makes sense of the results, draws conclusions, and proposes possible recommendations. This exact format is how good academic research papers should be written, which is why we chose to write ours as such.

By: Lexi Babovac

Bibliography

Research Guides: Organizing Academic Research Papers: 7. The Results. (Sacred Heart

University Library). Retrieved from

https://library.sacredheart.edu/c.php?g=29803&p=185931