Post date: Dec 20, 2019 6:36:18 PM
SciWrite Tip of a day: Results from the central story of the paper, and should clearly be distinguished from the Discussion Section (unless in cases where both Results and Discussion Sections are combined). In the Results Section, only show the results and flag out the critical ones. Below are the common errors in the Results Section:
Repeating (word-for-word) results in the Tables; using text to describe everything in the Table (Tables should be standalone, and data contained in them should not be repeated in the text, unless for the alarming values)
Reporting and discussing the results simultaneously
Falsifying the results as an attempt to boost the superiority of the proposed method
Comparing the results of the proposed method with very old methods, while state-of-the-art methods exist
Failing to connect the “big picture” of the results with the rest of the paper
Crafting poor Tables and Figures, which do not reflect known scientific standards
Using inappropriate tenses
Sequencing number of Tables and Figures inappropriately (Tables and Figures should be labeled sequentially)
Introducing results not directly related to the research, or not found in the research
Introducing inconsistency of results; for example, the Results Section may report that the value of PSNR (a metric for noise level measurement in signals) is 33.90, but in the Abstract the reported value can be 34.00. In addition, numbers recorded in the Results Section may have many decimal numbers unnecessarily (e.g. PSNR = 33.89473843834683748).
Including superfluous information or phrases. For example, “…as shown in Figure 4…” or “….as illustrated in Table 7…..” We often put Tables and Figures in parentheses: ……The value of PSNR peaked for image X (Table 7).