psych analysis - chapter 9 - APA style introductions

Basic APA

• APA professional paper

• typed

• double spacwd

• standard sized paper

• 1” margins on all sides

• times new roman, 12pt

• header

  • “running head” - top of every page

  • page # right top - every page

• align text to left

• don’t justify tet

five heading levels

1. centered, bold, uppercase and lowercase headings

2. left aligned, bold, uppercase and lowercase headings

3. indented, bold, lowercase heading with period

4. indented, bold, italicized, lowercase heading with a period

5. indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period

first heading level

centered, bold, uppercase and lowercase headings

second heading level

left aligned, bold, uppercase and lowercase headings

third heading level

indented, bold, lowercase heading with period

fourth heading level

indented, bold, italicized, lowercase heading with a period

fifth heading level

indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period

APA paper sections

• title page (1)

  • title and author

  • title 12 words of fewer, concise and informative

• abstract (2)

  • short summary

  • 250 words max

  • purpose, desigm, results, conclusion

• introduction (3)

  • establish importance

  • introduce and review topic

  • provide background and rationale from literature

  • state hypothesis

• method (4)

  • what did yoy do to test hypothesis?

  • describe participants, procedures, design, measures, apparatus

  • some sections combined/omitted as relevant

• results (5)

  • descriptive and inferential statistical tests used

  • figures and tables to display results

  • statements about support for hypothesis and significant effects

• discussion (6)

  • review support for hypothesis

  • explain and compare with oast studies

  • future research and limiations

• references (7)

  • full references for all works cited

  • alphabetical order by last name of first author

  • includes authors, publishing year, source information

title page (1)

• title and author

• title 12 words of fewer, concise and informative

abstract (2)

• short summary

• 250 words max

• purpose, desigm, results, conclusion

introduction (3)

• establish importance

• introduce and review topic

• provide background and rationale from literature

• state hypothesis

method (4)

• what did u do to test hypothesis?

• describe participants, procedures, design, measures, appratus

• some sections combined/omitted as relevant

results (5)

• descriptive and inferential statistical tests used

• figures and tables to display results

• statements about support for hypothesis and significant effects

discussion (6)

• review support for hypothesis

• explain and compare with past studies

• future research and limitations

references (7)

• full references for all works cited

• alphabetical order by last name of first author

• includes authors, publishing year, source information

APA paper sections - my proposal ONLY

• title page

• intro

• methods

• references

introduction formula

1. paragraph 1

   1. introduce topic/problem

   2. why is it important and/or interesting?

   3. often focus on DV or IV

2. middle paragraph(s)

   1. introduce IV (or DV)

   2. Relate IV or DV to topic/problem introduced in paragraph 1

   3. build argument for why IV is related to DV using peer reviewed literature (theory, data)

3. final paragraph

   1. state hypothesis

   2. slight intro into methods (enough to tell its an experiment)

structuring hypothesis

• present tense

• simple language

• includes IV and DV

• includes direction of relationship

• IV is positively (or negatively) related to DV

• participants in X condition are higher (or lower) in DV compared to participants in y condition