Chapter14Writingthereport-Routledge.ppt

RESULTS, DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Are your findings clearly presented? Have you included tables for your descriptive and inferential analysis of quantitative data? If you have included graphs, charts and so on, are these appropriate? Is the content of each chart clear? Is it clear how each chart relates to your research objectives? How have you analysed your findings? If you have undertaken quantitative analysis, which statistical tests have you used? Are you sure these are the correct tests? Have you interpreted the results correctly? For qualitative analysis, have you demonstrated that you have analysed your data in a systematic manner? In your discussion, do you adequately revisit the literature and relate your findings to the literature, or do you simply discuss what you found? Are your arguments coherent, logical and sound? Are they consistent with the evidence that you have collected? Have your conclusions clearly emerged from the evidence collected and discussed? Have you acknowledged unexpected evidence, or evidence that contradicts your chosen theory or model? Do you return to your research question or hypothesis? Do you evaluate the research? Have you identified the strengths and the limitations of the project? GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE REPORT Is your content well planned and logically structured? Is the work well presented? Have you made appropriate use of supportive materials to enhance presentation, i.e. graphs, tables, illustrations? Have you conducted a thorough read through, to eliminate careless spelling and typographical errors, poor grammar and poor sentence construction? Do you link your various chapters and make use of signposting to help the reader? Do you set out your intentions clearly in your introduction? Have you set out your references and/or bibliography with the required detail and in the recommended format? Have you acknowledged all sources used, and made it clear when it is your views that are being express