ABSTRACT
This chapter describes typical components of the results chapter or results sections of a thesis. It identifies differences in the location of the results/findings within the thesis that may be attributable to the research paradigm used. Students will need to make choices about how to structure and organise their data, present the results or findings of their research, and begin to put forward the knowledge claims they wish to make. In the traditional ‘complex’ thesis and the thesis by publication, each chapter will report on a discrete study and therefore discuss relevant results within the specific chapter, usually making use of distinct section headings. In qualitative research, it is less likely that separate Results/Findings sections will be discernible. In the Results component of the thesis, writers typically use language for the rhetorical purposes. The language the thesis writer uses to comment on the significance of their results will therefore be hedged in ways that are considered appropriate by the discipline.
