Describe the equipment and experimental procedures you used for laboratory or field work, and the mathematical relations and solution techniques for a theoretical study. Then in the results section, which usually follows, you should refrain in most cases from including raw data but rather present the results themselves with some explanation of how you reached them. Next comes the discussion section, where you explain the significance of your results. According to Mr. Davidson and Ms. Ambrose, a poor job here is the main reason for rejection of most journal papers. In other cases, the findings are interesting and worth publishing, but the discussion is inappropriate.
Some papers follow the discussion section with a section on future work.
If this is the case, such statements should be limited to broad overviews of the directions you see your research taking, and not the kind of detail that would fit into a forthcoming proposal. Next to the title and abstract, the section most likely to be read by most readers is the one with the conclusion or summary statement. A conclusion states the outcome of your work whereas a summary is a brief statement covering the main points of the paper. Either, or both, may be found in a research paper. While there are many references on writing research papers, don't forget what may be your most important resource, your research advisers.