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OK so once you've decided how to structure your results section and for what you want to use figures

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and tables, the next step is to write it out.

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And again, the results section is very individual and very dependent on your research.

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But just to inspire you, I have created another outline and writing template, this time for the results

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section. So on the first page, you find a sample of an outline for a fictional study.

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So here for example, before the analysis it is mentioned that two participants dropped out during the

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treatment and therefore they are not included in the analysis.

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Then, this outline moves to the main analysis, starting with a research question.

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:Does the refocus treatment work?" The analysis is a simple independent samples t test with groups as

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independent variable and the depression score as dependent variable. Then, the results, here reported in

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APA format, is that the difference was significant and that the depression score was lower in the treatment

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group.

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So this is how you outline could look like. And for turning it into text, you can also find some examples

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of expressions on the next page.

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For example: "Before we analyzed the data we removed all reaction times that were larger than 2000 milliseconds

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which is 2 percent of all observations." Or "The data of 2 participants were excluded from the analysis

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because they did not complete the whole study." Or for the main analysis, you can start by saying: "First,

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we investigated whether X"... which is the research question. And this - especially using the expression "first" -

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can make sense if you have several research questions and then you may say something like:  "We used an

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independent samples t test." And then: "The results showed that the difference between the groups was significant.

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Specifically, the average depression score was lower in the treatment group."

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So this is what it could look like and hopefully it inspires you a little bit. And you can download this

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PDF from the resources of this lecture.

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All right.

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That is what this lecture and I see in the next one.