PSYC 515 - Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology II

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Research: Intro and Methods

Please don’t forget that the Introduction and Method sections of your professional research paper is due this week! Make sure you’ve edited it and have spent substantial time thinking about how to best organize and present these sections. Remember, scientific writing markedly differs from creative writing. You need to make sure all articles are relevant to at least one of your variables, and that the relevance to your study is clear and explicit. (This means you should expect to read MANY articles but only include those that are relevant).  Note having tangential or irrelevant articles will result in a LOSS of points. Also note that no one ever includes titles of studies or papers. It is considered verbose and unnecessary. That being said, do make sure to use topic sentences and transitions, and do not discuss one article per paragraph – rather, use the Introduction to build a case for your study design by using an articulate review of literature. You hopefully noticed the very standardized flow for an introduction when reading articles as you searched for those relevant to your study. However, I also explicitly outlined this organization in the instructions for the assignment. For maximum points, make sure you follow the directions.