Findings

How it is used

Usually plural in academic writing. Findings are reported, presented, discussed and compared with earlier studies, and key findings are often summarized in the abstract and conclusion. Typical verbs: findings show, suggest, indicate or reveal.

Example sentences

1. Our findings suggest that peer feedback improves students' writing.

2. These findings are consistent with earlier studies in Spain and Italy.

Common collocations

• key findings
• report findings
• the findings suggest
• preliminary findings
• discuss the findings

Related terms

• dataFacts, numbers, recordings, texts or observations collected in a study and then analyzed to answer a research question.
• analysisDetailed examination of data or a text in order to identify patterns, relationships or meaning, often using statistical or qualitative techniques.
• discussionThe section of a research article or thesis that interprets the results, compares them with earlier studies and explains their meaning and limitations.
• conclusionThe final section of a thesis or article that sums up the main findings, their meaning and limitations; also a judgment reached after considering evidence.
• significantIn statistics, describing a result unlikely to be due to chance alone at a chosen level such as p < .05; in general use, large or important enough to matter.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• findings · Medicine

More terms: Data and Analysis

• draw a conclusion
• correlation
• thematic analysis
• account for
• interpret
• dataset
• mean
• standard deviation
• descriptive statistics
• p-value
• coding
• trend