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Statistical Table
The default for any result with more than two numbers. Built with the columns your test requires and nothing decorative — an examiner should be able to scan it without reading the surrounding prose.
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Hypothesis Summary Table
One row per hypothesis: statement, test, value, verdict. It is the table examiners look for first, and having it shapes how sceptically they read everything above it.
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Bar and Clustered Charts
For comparing categories or groups. Clustered bars when a second grouping variable matters. Never a pie chart for more than four slices, and never for anything an examiner needs to compare precisely.
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Line and Interaction Plots
For change across time or, more often in Malaysian theses, for simple slopes showing a moderation. An interaction is far easier to accept as a plot than as a coefficient in a table.
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Path Diagram With Coefficients
For structural models. Beta values and significance markers placed on the arrows so the whole model is readable at a glance, with the full statistics kept in the accompanying table.
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Thematic Map
Shows how codes group into sub-themes and themes. It is what convinces an examiner your qualitative themes were derived rather than decided in advance, and most students omit it.
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Quotation Blocks With Codes
Indented, attributed to an anonymised participant identifier, and chosen because they are representative rather than because they are quotable. Two speakers per theme minimum.
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Cross-Tabulation
For relationships between categorical variables, usually alongside a chi-square result. Report counts and percentages together — one without the other is a question waiting to be asked.
