ABSTRACT

You are now ready to write up your findings in a polished state for public scrutiny. And "scrutiny" is the operative term. Expect that each of your "findings" will be subjected to intensive study. You will initially draft some organizational strategies projecting the potential contents of sections of your chapters. You will place in these sections all the relevant materials you have collected and analyzed. At first this will probably involve creating numerous files with scraps of papers, notes, transcripts, test scores, etc. Eventually, you will distill this amalgam of papers, identifying the most important issues and highlighting these in your presentation. You will constantly revise these as you proceed in presenting your findings. In actuality, you are probably discovering what you found concurrent with writing this section. Once a first draft is completed, you will be in a better position to revise your text, helping your readers to understand what you now know you have discovered.