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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab: How to Science Fair

WikiHow: How to Create a Science Fair Project

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Want help writing your results, analysis, and conclusion?

Your results should follow these guidelines:

Include what you wanted to accomplish and study during your experiment.
Describe and report what you discovered. Be sure to include any data that might have been collected. It is important to show this data even if it did not support your hypothesis. The process of completing the experiment with true data is what is important.
Provide graphs and visuals / pictures
The function of the Results section is to objectively present your key results, without interpretation.

The original purpose of this experiment was to…….

The results of the experiment were……………………..

Discussion

In this section you compare your work with that of previous experimenters and bring out any speculations about your project. Be sure to distinguish between your speculations and your observations. Restate your hypothesis, and interpret your results in light of the hypothesis. Did your data support or refute your hypothesis? Why?

Refer to figures and tables to make your point. Discuss the meaning of the results. Discuss possible alternative interpretations of your results and give them an unbiased evaluation. Discuss what variables might have been overlooked. Suggest other studies that might be done on the basis of your results. Clearly distinguish between what you now know and what you now think; this may not be as easy as it sounds. Integrate your observations and results into a single meaningful statement of conclusion.

This is the most important part of your paper and should tie together all of the other sections. It may seem repetitive to restate parts of your introduction, procedure, and results, but that is desirable. This is where you wrap up everything and make sense of your experiment for your reader. You may want to cite resources as you did in the introduction to make a point or to compare your results with someone else's.

You don't need to start the Discussion section on a new page; it immediately follows the Results. Continue to double space.

Paragraph One

Other studies that found similar findings (cite sources)
What did your project find

Paragraph Two

Restate hypothesis
Was hypothesis answered, use data to support
Use data or information to discuss your results

Paragraph Three

What problems did you encounter
How would you improve the study or make more accurate
What is a future study that you would recommend.