This chapter contains an analysis of your results with reference to the questions you originally addressed. Do not neglect to analyse data which does not support your original hypothesis. As a researcher you have an obligation to report and analyse all relevant data. Finding lack of support for a theory or stating that the evidence is inconclusive is as important as finding supporting evidence.

Be sure that all your conclusions are consistent with and follow from an analysis of your data. Everything in this section must grow logically from what you have presented in earlier sections. In closing you may want to mention new directions, questions and experiments which emerge from your results.