2003博士科技论文讲座3.pptVIP

Unit 3 Unit 3 Elements of Theses and Journal Papers (2) Section C The method of the investigation Section D Results Section E Discussion Section C The method of the investigation The method of the investigation should discuss the following matters: the nature of the sample and any control groups, the data needed to test the hypotheses or to answer the questions, the sources of data, the procedures followed in gathering and analyzing the data. Method of Investigation should involve: the participants, materials, procedures. Materials Identify exactly what materials you used to conduct your research---reactants, enzymes, catalysts, organisms, experimental subjects (human or animal), etc. You should also identify your materials specifically enough that another researcher could use exactly what you specify to reproduce your results. Useful expressions to describe materials 例3：The employed amorphous powders were composed of … 采用的无定形粉末由……组成。 例6：Two sets of compositions for … were used in the experiments. The first set is …, consisting of … and … 实验中采用两组化合物，第一组是……，包含……和…… 。 Sample: The participants were 48 people chosen from a sample of those seated by the fountain in front of City Hall at 10 to 11 AM on a Monday in the month of July 1998. The 18 males and 30 females, ranging in age from 15 to 35, represented every third person that stopped at the fountain for a period of at least 5 minutes. Ten other people who were contracted refused to fill out the questionnaire. back Section D Results ? The chapter(s) in this section should present the results of the investigation without interpretation or revaluation, reporting negative as well as positive results. If you wish to accompany your analyses with tables or figures, these should supplement the text rather than substitute for it. The body of the paper should be comprehensible even if the reader chooses not to consult the tables. One final rule for writing the Results section is that there must