Results Chapter
The thesis chapter that reports what the study found, organized around the research questions, with interpretation left to the discussion.
The results chapter presents the findings of a study in an organized, neutral way. Quantitative results are reported with descriptive and inferential statistics, tables, and figures; qualitative results are reported as themes supported by quotations. The chapter answers each research question in turn rather than dumping every output the analysis produced.
By convention, interpretation is kept to a minimum here. The results chapter says what was found; the discussion chapter says what it means. Some qualitative traditions blend the two, but the split remains the default expectation in most disciplines.
For thesis writers, discipline in this chapter pays off twice. Selecting only results relevant to the research questions keeps the chapter readable and the word count under control, and a clean separation from interpretation makes it easier for examiners to verify that claims in the discussion actually rest on reported evidence.
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