4.2 Structuring your chapters

Course subject(s) 4. Reporting your findings

Structuring your chapters

Once you have chosen how to divide your research into chapters, you need to determine the internal structure of each chapter. A page or two filled with uninterrupted text would be very hard to read.

The structure of a chapter is basically a smaller version of the structure of the entire report:

  • An informative chapter title,
  • A chapter introduction: one or several paragraphs outlining the purpose and content of this chapter,
  • The main body of the chapter, possibly divided into several sections,
  • A chapter conclusion, summarizing the results that have been found in this chapter.
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