you

 obtained  for  the  purposes  of  demonstrating  or  calibrating  equipment,  

measurement  setups,  models,  or  simulations  that  you  use  to  obtain  the  core  
results  of  your  work.    (Other  titles  for  this  section  might  be  Experimental  
Methods,  Theory  or  Theoretical  Approach,  Simulation  Techniques,  etc.)  
 
6. Results  and  Discussion  
 
Systematically  present  the  key  results  of  your  work,  focusing  on  those  most  
relevant  to  your  objectives.    You  should  not  “cherry  pick”  results  to  present,  i.e.  
omit  contrary  but  unexplained  results,  but  at  the  same  time  you  should  not  
present  all  of  the  data  you  took  just  because  you  have  it.    Your  chair  can  help  you  
select  the  highest  quality  representative  results  to  present  in  your  manuscript,  
and  directly  address  discrepancies,  outliers,  or  unexplained  results.      Lead  the  
reader  carefully  through  the  results,  explaining  clearly  what  is  being  shown  in  
each  figure,  table,  or  diagram,  and  draw  attention  to  significant  features  that  you  
want  the  reader  to  notice.    As  the  results  are  presented,  or  in  a  separate  
subsection,  discuss  the  results  in  detail.    Guide  the  reader  through  the  
interpretation  and  meaning  of  your  results,  and  be  clear  about  the  role  that  they  
play  in  supporting  your  objectives  (answering  a  question,  characterizing  a  
material  or  device,  demonstrating  the  desired  functionality  of  a  hardware  
prototype  or  a  software  package,  etc.)  
 
7. Summary  and  Conclusion  
 
Begin  this  section  with  a  summary  that  recapitulates  what  you  have  done,  both  
in  general  terms  and  via  a  section-­‐by-­‐section  overview  of  the  document.    This  is  
typically  written  in  the  past  tense,  and  from  the  “end-­‐of-­‐the-­‐road”  perspective.    
Then  state  the  conclusions  in  a  form  appropriate  to  the  nature  of  what  you  have  
done,  i.e.  what  you  confirmed,  revealed,  characterized,  proved,  produced,  etc.    
This  section  is  required  for  research  theses,  and  should  be  quite  thorough.    It  is  
optional  for  projects,  although  at  least  a  brief  summary  is  recommended  for  
project  manuscripts.      
 
8. Appendices  and  Artifact  
 
Include  as  appropriate.    Present  as  appropriately  titled  subsections  of  a  single  
“Appendix”  or  “Appendices”  section  (e.g.    Appendix  B:  Proof  of  Theorem  2  or  
Appendix  C:  Feature  Extraction  Algorithm).    Appendices  are  appropriate  for  
space-­‐intensive  material  that  supports  the  rest  of  the  document  but  that  need  
not  be  presented  in  the  main  body.    This  could  include  large  sets  of  raw  data,  
long  computer  codes,  long  derivations  of  formulae  used  in  the  work,  detailed  
information  that  others  would  need  to  reproduce  your  results,  etc.      
 
Note:  For  honors  projects,  artifact  documentation  is  required  and  may  be  
included  in  an  appendix  and  so  labeled  (e.g.  as  Appendix  A:  Artifact  or  as