PSYC02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Duplicate Publication
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PSYC02 Lecture 1 Notes
Writing for the Behavioural and Social Sciences
-Types of articles
-Ethical and legal standards in publishing
-Ensuring the accuracy of scientific knowledge
-Protecting the rights and welfare of research participants
-Protecting intellectual property rights
Types of Articles
-Different types of articles can be found in research journals
-Important to be able to identify and differentiate these types of articles
-Serve different purposes and offer different types of information
-Empirical studies
-Report on original research
-Literature reviews
-Different types of reviews, which summarize and evaluate literature that has already been
published
-Vary in terms of structure and approach
-Include meta-analyses
-Quantitative procedures for combining the results of published studies to offer a
statistical review of a specific research question
-Theoretical articles
-Methodological articles
-Case studies
-Others
-Brief reports, comments, book reviews, letters to the editor, etc
-Different psychology journals publish different types of articles
-Example: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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