20.109(F21):Organize Research article data figures and outline text

Organize figures and outline results text

The goal for today is to focus on how you will communicate the results you are gathering and analyzing in the Research article.

Currently, you have partial drafts and outlines for each of the sections (with Instructor feedback!) that will be included in the Research article. Today you will organize and write a detailed outline for the data that you collected for this module.

To get started on this process, complete the following:

1. Make a list of all of the schematics / data figures / tables that will be included.
2. Organize the figures such that the data tell a coherent story that answers your research question.
3. Complete the following steps for each figure:
   • Write a conclusive figure title that relays the main take-home message for the data shown.
   • Write a results subsection title that mimics the figure title.
   • Write the text that will be included in the results subsection using the prompts below.

    *Begin with an overview that motivates and introduces the present experiment (2-3 sentences).
    **What was the goal of the experiment?
    **What was the method used to generate the data shown?
    **Because there is a methods section, technical details related to the experiment should not be included!
    *Provide a written description of the data shown (length depends on complexity of the data).
    **What controls were included and why?  
    **Were the results from the controls as expected?
    **What variables were tested and why?  
    **What were the results for each of the variables tested?
    **Were the results from the variables as expected?
    **When describing the results, be specific!  Use numbers.  Compare samples using either percent differences or fold-changes.
    *Connect the present experiment to the next figure (1-2 sentences).

**How do the results of this experiment motivate the subsequent experiment?