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The Introduction Section - Statistic and Research Design II | PSY 862, Study notes of Statistics

Material Type: Notes; Professor: Gore; Class: Statistic & Research Design II; Subject: PSY Psychology; University: Eastern Kentucky University; Term: Spring 2009;

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The Introduction
Section
The Basics
“This is why I am doing what I am doing”
Theoretical background
Literature review
Builds up to your hypotheses
Start ________________
“Top of the hourglass”
Snag the reader
Talk about “people in general” as they
relate to your topic
Present prevalence or frequency
information if it’s a problem
Purpose of study (not hypo) at the end of
the first paragraph
Section should get steadily more specific
and end with your hypothesis
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The Introduction

Section

The Basics

 “This is why I am doing what I am doing”  Theoretical background  Literature review  Builds up to your hypotheses

Start ________________

 “Top of the hourglass”  Snag the reader  Talk about “people in general” as they relate to your topic  Present prevalence or frequency information if it’s a problem  Purpose of study (not hypo) at the end of the first paragraph  Section should get steadily more specific and end with your hypothesis

________________ is Key

 There should be no question as to why you are conducting this research  Illustrate with real world examples

Be Consistent and

________________

 Your literature review must be relevant to your hypothesis  If there are conflicting results in the literature, focus on one side and only present the counterargument briefly

Literature Reviews

Don’t Have Any Evidence?

 Write “(REFS)” at the end of the sentence so I know you are looking  Go back to PsychINFO, find an article that backs up the claim and cite it for the final paper

Can’t Find Any Evidence?

 Discard the claim  Turn it into a testable hypothesis

Hypothesis Subsection

No ________________

 No part of your hypothesis should come out of the blue  Set-up each piece for what you predict  Literature review should set-up what we already know about these variables  Provide an explanation of “what’s missing” in the literature

Make It Easy for the

________________

 Create a separate subsection labeled “Hypothesis” or “Hypotheses”  Have a statement that highlights your prediction:  “The current research tests the hypothesis that...”

Phrasing It

 Make sure it is a clear prediction of what you expect will happen  What kind of comparison are you making?  Correlational? Specify direction of association (positive or negative)  Experimental? State which groups you are comparing and who will be higher on the DV

________________

 Synthesizing information  Esp. literature review  Logical argument  Consistency in argument  No contradictions  Each paragraph follows from previous one  Introductory statement  Information to support that statement (citing specifics)  Conclusive statement that leads into next paragraph

________________

 Avoid awkward and run-on sentences  Read your paper out loud  Say what you mean in English  Passes the “Mom Test”  Especially important in Results section

________________ Features

 Spelling  Errors noted as “sp”  Vocabulary  Errors noted as “w.c.” for word choice  Grammar  Errors noted as “gramm”  Punctuation  Errors noted as “punc”  Capitalization  Errors noted as “caps”