I am from the social sciences so I realise that this may differ by discipline but here goes. Do you put tables in th chapter as they wold naturally occur or at the end like an academic paper? It seems to make sense to put them as they should occur but when there are a few it sometimes makes the chapter harder to read.

All advice and experience will be greatly appreciated.

Sorry for the many spelling mistakes, time for a break I think!

I'd say you always need to put your data in the writing at the point where you are discussing it. I've never come across a published paper that has data stuck at the end.

If it is making your chapter harder to read maybe you need to ask whether the table is contributing anything? Or, do you need to expand your discussion of the table in your text to integrate it more fully into your writing.

Thanks a lot for the advice. I will have a rethink about how much the tables are contributing.

Some papers in my field do put tables as appendices and that is what I meant, apologies for not being very clear.

Hey FluffyM, I'm sure if tables at the end happen in your field they're ok - just havent seen them in mine.

I still reckon that if it doesnt feel good where you've stuck it, then taking it out and putting it in somewhere else isnt going to improve things, you need to be doing something else with it.........