PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: American Psychological Association, Apa Style, Formal Language
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The publication manual of the american psychological association. A genre of writing (cid:498)to facilitate scientific communication by promoting clarity of expression book chapters(cid:499) and by standardizing the organization and content of research articles and. Guidelines for the clear expression of ideas. Formal language: avoid slang, humor, contradictions, pop culture references or other elements of informal writing. Straight forward: focus on the ideas themselves, short, direct sentences. There are very few direct quotations of other researchers. Criticisms are directed at other researchers work but not at them personally. There are many references and reference citations. Empirical research reports are organizes with specific sections in a fixed. Researchers tend to (cid:498)hedge(cid:499) their conclusions e. g (cid:498)the results suggest that (cid:499) The phenomena and theories of psychology are objective and do not depend on the specific words a particular researcher used to describe them. The focus of scientific research is on drawing general conclusions about the world, not on the personalities of particular researchers.
