ABSTRACT
This chapter provides general advice on writing empirical papers, with special attention to reporting findings from design research. It explores how to make text coherent by ensuring that all relevant inferential and referential relationships are clear. The chapter outlines the main topics that keep recurring in the educational research methods courses and research projects. The research project's goal is to figure out how to make idea work, so the people have a conjecture or a research question on some specific aspect of the potential solution. In reports from design research it is wise to start the methods section with a brief explanation of why the question raised, often a how-question, requires design research. In design research, it is especially important to highlight the mechanisms that the author think describe how learning or teaching proceeds, and how these may be connected to particular design features.
