PSY 3392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Electronic Publishing, Masking Tape, Pseudoscience
Document Summary
Online journals are designed to make science more accessible (science without subscription) Not all journal articles are equal because some publish fake science for a fee: formatting guidelines, authors do not make money by publishing. The manual also discusses ethical issues in scientific writing and makes updates changes online: know your audience, identify your purpose, write clearly, be concise, be precise, write fairly, write an interesting. Use appropriate specificity (man vs. men and women) Gender is cultural; sex is report biological. Structure: title page, abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, references, footnotes, tables, figures, appendices, title page, abstract, introduction (running head, descriptive title, authors, authors" affiliation, author"s note) Identifies the research question: apa says max 12 words, can be one-two lines. Concise, one-paragraph summary of content and purpose (100-250 word) Identifies: problem, method, participant info, basic findings, conclusions, implications and applications. Critical points from intro, method, results, and discussion.
