Writing Strategies for Occupy the Niche

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Now that you have been introduced to Strategies used to foreground the Results, here we discuss reporting the actual results. This Goal is what we call Occupying the Niche. At the beginning of your manuscript, you were expected to build an argument that identifies a niche in the established research territory. Maybe the niche is due to lacking or insufficient knowledge, or problems in the field. Now, you will occupy that space with the results from your study. Thus, the Goal of Occupy the Niche is to introduce new knowledge by presenting the results of the study in an explicit manner. We may do this in text or by using visual representations of the data.

It is important to stress that the results are not commented on or discussed here. This Goal is solely for informative, objective reporting. There are two Strategies that are often used to Occupy the Niche; you will likely find that these two Strategies take up the majority (if not all) of the Results section, especially in sections that are Results only as separate from the Discussion. These are Report Specific Results and Indicate Alternative Presentation of Results. Let us look at both of these strategies in depth.