Reference to aim, research questions or method
- The first set of questions aimed to …
- The purpose of Experiment 3 was to …
- Simple statistical analysis was used to…
- The next question asked the informants …
- To assess X, the Y questionnaire was used. Changes in X and Y were compared using…
- Regression analysis was used to predict the…
- To distinguish between these two possibilities,…
- The first set of analyses examined the impact of…
- The correlation between X and Y was tested using …
- T-tests were used to analyse the relationship between…
- The average scores of X and Y were compared in order to…
- In order to assess Z, repeated-measures ANOVAs were used.
- Nine items on the questionnaire measured the extent to which…
- To compare the scores three weeks after initial screening, a global ANOVA F-test was used.
- The Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationship between…
Referring to data in a table or chart
Highlighting significant data in a table or chart
- What stands out in the table is …
- Closer inspection of the table shows …
- It is apparent from this table that very few…
- The most interesting aspect of this graph is …
- In Fig.10 there is a clear trend of decreasing …
- What is striking about the figures in this table is …
- What is interesting about the data in this table is that…
- The differences between X and Y are highlighted in Table 4.
- From the chart, it can be seen that by far the greatest demand is for…
- From this data, we can see that Study 2 resulted in the lowest value of…
- This table is quite revealing in several ways. First, unlike the other tables…
- From the data in Figure 9, it is apparent that the length of time left between…
- Data from this table can be compared with the data in Table 4.6 which shows…
- As Table III shows, there is a significant difference (t = -2.15, p = 0.03) between the two groups.
Surveys and interviews: Introducing excerpts from interview data
- As one interviewee said: ‘…’
- As one interviewee put it: ‘…’
- One informant reported that…
- The comment below illustrates…
- One participant commented: ‘ …’
- For example, one interviewee said: ‘…’
- In one case, the participant thought that …
- Another interviewee, when asked …, said: ‘…’
- Other responses to this question included: ‘…’
- Another interviewee alluded to the notion of…
- Talking about this issue an interviewee said: ‘…’
- Commenting on X, one of the interviewees said …
- One individual stated that ‘…’ And another commented ‘…’
Reporting important themes in qualitative data
- Another reported problem was …
- Opinions differed as to whether …
- Concerns were expressed about …
- A number of issues were identified …
- A variety of perspectives were expressed …
- These views surfaced mainly in relation to …
- Concerns regarding X were more widespread.
- There was a sense of X amongst interviewees.
- Five broad themes emerged from the analysis.
- A common view amongst interviewees was that …
- One concern expressed regarding X was whether …
- This theme came up for example in discussions of …
- The themes of X and Y recurred throughout the dataset.
- Two divergent and often conflicting discourses emerged …
- Two discrete reasons emerged from this. First… Second …
- Issues related to X were not particularly prominent in the interview data.
- A recurrent theme in the interviews was a sense amongst interviewees that …
Transition statements
- If we now turn to…
- A comparison of the two results reveals…
- Turning now to the experimental evidence on…
- Comparing the two results, it can be seen that…
- The next section of the survey was concerned with…
- In the final part of the survey, respondents were asked…
Summary and transition
- These results suggest that…
- Overall, these results indicate that…
- In summary, these results show that…
- In summary, for the informants in this study,…
- Together these results provide important insights into…
- Taken together, these results suggest that there is an association between…
- The results in this chapter indicate that…
- The next chapter, therefore, moves on to discuss the…
