APA final

when describing participants in your research, you should

give specific demographic characteristics such as age, sex, ethnic and/or racial group, level of education etc.. describe the procedures for selecting participants report whether the participants were provided incentives

Before writing the introduction section, consider the following questions

how do hypothesis and research design relate to one another? what are the theoretical and practical implications of the study?

in a paper that integrates several experiments, you should

include a comprehensive general discussion of all the work

the discussion section is a part of the report in which you can

interpret your results and discuss their implications

Examples of supplemental materials that are included in online supplemental archives are

lengthy computer code audio and video clips

when reporting inferential statistical tests, include the

obtained magnitude or value of the test statistic degrees of freedom exact p value

when writing a report of original research, the sections should reflect the

stages of the research process

The abstract of a report of an empirical study should describe

the problem, participants, essential features of the study method, basic findings, and conclusions.