This chapter is not included in the thesis of the sandwich format, but it contains tips on how to make illustrations and to write figure legends which can be useful when you write papers in the future.

Begin by referring specialist readers to the individual papers (Tapio Kurki, 1992).

Then, in the overview, try to synthesize data from more than one paper. For example, one overview presented the results of all four individual papers in one single page; we can call it Results at a glance (Carin Staland Nyman, 2008). Another one summarized the findings of Papers III and IV in one illustrative drawing (Daniel Bexell, 2008). After such summaries, only the main points need to be highlighted. This approach may be better than a tedious repetition of the results paper by paper.

Data from the studies are often assembled in figures made especially for the overview and have thus passed no editorial scrutiny. Some representative figures will be scrutinized here. If the figure has a message, and most figures do, the message should be conveyed in the legend.