Statistics
The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides a brief guide on how to write about statistics in a research paper.
-- Explaining statistics accurately and precisely will help
-- Strengthen arguments
-- Read statistics for optimal comprehension
-- Provides prompts regarding questions you should ask yourself while reading and note-taking
-- Explains reading and writing challenges
-- Clarifies terminology: mean (arithmetic meaning), median, and mode
-- Applying statistics to the point/argument you are presenting
-- Avoiding misrepresentations
-- Writing clearly and accurately about statistics
-- Linking these explanations to the statistics
-- Summarizing and writing the discussion
