PSYB01H3 Lecture 3: 3
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Tells you what this article is about: abstract one paragraph that appears before the article. It provides a summary of the entire article. Tells you what this article is about, what the topic is of study, what is their primary finding: introduction introduces the topic of the article and discusses what the article contributes to existing knowledge on the topic. Purpose of a literature review is to discuss previous work on a topic, point out what questions remain, and relate research presented in the article to the existing literature. A(cid:374) e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) of the author"s h(cid:455)pothesis is also i(cid:374)cluded here. It includes information about participants, the procedures, the instruments, and the variables that were measures. Tells you who the participants were and whether the study was qualitative or quantitative or multi method: results explains what the author found when they analysed their data. It can be quite technical, reporting in detailed statistical language.
