Summary: Approach the Niche

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Let us recap the Goal – Approach the Niche. Remember that this Goal is used to scaffold the presentation of the Results. We do this by reiterating relevant information from the Introduction and/or Methods and by reemphasizing what motivated the study. We may also restate important study-specific details and rationalize choices leading to the presentation of results. In essence, this Goal is about old information from earlier in the manuscript, and it helps to segue into the actual reporting of results.

1. To achieve this goal, there are three main strategies: provide orientation, restate study specifics, and rationalize study specifics.
2. Provide orientation is used to give background information to the reader and/or orient the reader to content in the section.
3. Restate study specifics is essentially any information about the study choices from the Methods section.
4. Rationalize study specifics is used to provide justification for those choices.

Like stated before, you are not obligated to use all of these Strategies, but you will see which are frequently used by analyzing writing in your discipline.