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Title: Slides to accompany Weathington, Cunningham


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Slides to accompany Weathington, Cunningham
Pittenger (2010), Chapter 5 Writing the
Research Report
2
Objectives
  • What Readers Appreciate in Good Writing
  • Elements of APA Style
  • Special Grammatical Issues
  • Academic Integrity
  • Parts of the Research Report
  • Proofreading

3
Readers Expectations
  • Focus
  • Writing has a purpose and clear boundaries
  • Organization
  • Writing follows a logical sequence
  • Integration
  • Writing conveys a complete story

4
Elements of APA Style
  • Strive for accuracy, brevity, and clarity
  • Write for a specific audience
  • Typically other scientists
  • Use unbiased language
  • e.g., sex- and race-neutral
  • Integrate numbers and text carefully, following
    guidelines in the manual

5
Special Grammatical Issues
  • Use active voice whenever possible
  • We designed this study to test
  • Use past tense when referring to the work of
    other researchers and to your own results
  • Be careful with your pronouns
  • Study box 5.1 for commonly misused words

6
Academic Integrity
  • Based on you giving fair credit where credits
    due
  • Whenever you state a fact or report someone
    elses findings you need to cite the origin of
    that information
  • Academic dishonesty plagiarism
  • Dont go there
  • Review Box 5.2 and the APA manual for citation
    examples

7
Parts of the Research Report
  • Title page
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Method
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • References

8
Crafting the Introduction
9
Method Section Subsections
  • Participants
  • Materials/Measures
  • Procedure

10
Results Section Issues
  • Follow APA manual guidelines for reporting
    results of statistical tests
  • Use tables and figures sparingly and when they
    are more efficient than displaying statistical
    information in the text

11
Discussion Details
12
Proofreading
  • Do it seriously
  • Computer spellchecker is NOT a substitute for
    actual proofreading
  • Read it aloud to yourself and have someone else
    listen (if you can find someone)

13
What is Next?
  • instructor to provide details
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