P

Presents your results in a clear, easy-to-understand manner

A

Is a colleague who is interested in your work and wants to

know your data

I

*Gives the reader the necessary information

*Does not include information which should be in the Materials and Methods section

*Does not merely repeat information in the figures and

tables

*Does not include unnecessary tables and figures (See

Example 10.1.)

*Does not discuss your results unless this section is

combined with the Discussion section but can include

short comments on them

L

*Uses different verb tenses to present different information:

Something done during the study--past tense

Something in the paper itself (figure, table, text)_

present tense

Something which is generally accepted as true--present

tense

Comment on the results--present tense or

modal/tentative verbs

L = 

Locate position of results in paper 

P = 

Refer to something done in the study 

G = 

Refer to something generally considered to be true 

C = 

Comment briefly on result 

¹

DDD clones were isolated from a barley cDNA library 

through functional complementation of an E. coli hemA mutant. We 

obtained 2,000 clones after the first screening of 5 x 10¹⁰ primary 

transformants and randomly chose two clones for further analysis. 

⁵

These clones are designated as BBA and CCA. Their deduced 

amino acid sequences are aligned with that of BBH (XXX, 1996), 

as shown in Fig. 1. They seem to have originated from the same gene, 

since only one base is different between them. The difference probably 

arose from the difference in cultivars used. They contain two 

¹⁰

successive ATG codons at the start of their reading frames.... We named 

the gene ...