SOCECOL 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James W. Pennebaker, Rating Scale, Joiner
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Find a published instrument (instead of using your own questions) Have a good way to measure a certain construct. We need measures that are unbias, high reliability, have high construct validity measure what it is supposed to measure. Identify names for construct you want to measure. Nothing due this week for say: but work on operationalizing variables. Page 3 (centered at the top is the title ) right under neath indendented introduction. After introduction comes the method section: subsection, participant, design, measure, procedure, each section will begin with these subheadings in bold, method-centered capitalized, participants(on the left side) 2nd level subheading, begin writing, another point to make, measures. Then comes results: results is bolded and centered (no page break between intro,methods, results, results, fefe. Discussion (on line by itself centered and bolded, after last sentence of results: on next line you begin discussion with indentation, limitations, future directions could be 2nd level subheadings.