1. Proposals

2. APA style and an abstract
Don’t forget them

3. Intro Start broadly with the problem
Then set up what your study will do
Use headings
Tell where you’re going, go there, then summarize
Use topic sentences
Focus on results and important details

4. Typical paragraph
Topic sentence: What is this paragraph about and how does it add to what you’ve already said?
Important method details with focus on results
Possibly of more than one study
In present tense for general results; past if you talk about the study in the text
Then tell what this all means or suggests

5. Current study section Getting to the narrow part of the hourglass
Summarize what your study adds to what we know
Give the rationale for your hypotheses
Set up your study
End with your hypotheses/research questions

6. Method Design section Participants
Design, IVs, DVs, Covariates, Meds/Mods, etc. and why
Participants
Recruitment
Detailed power analysis
Any incentives
Any criteria

7. Measures (DV)/materials (IV)
Procedure
Put it in time order
In enough detail that I could do exactly what you have in mind
Measures (DV)/materials (IV)
If necessary, or include with procedure
For each measure (including demographics):
Citation
Number of items, scale used
What it measures
Reliability and validity info
Sample item
Put in Appendix

8. Additional appendices
Validity
Internal
External
Construct
Conclusion
Ethics
Any concerns (think beyond just participant ethics), how you’ll deal with them

9. Expected results Data cleaning—any criteria for dropping participants
Based on who they are
Timing
How they respond
Attention checks
How you’ll deal with missing values
Any calculations/ checks for assumptions
Manipulation checks

10. Hypothesis testing How you’ll test each hypothesis Stats
Comparisons (IVs, DVs, etc.)
What you expect to find
Any follow-up tests
Be specific

11. Discussion Tell what your expected results would mean
Talk about what your study would add
Talk about a couple of limitations that are interesting (not things that are always issues) and why they aren’t that big a problem if possible and ways future research could address them
What are the implications for practice, for theory, for the real world?
End strong—what does this tell us about what you started out with as a problem?

12. Assignment
Read over what’s expected of the papers and what to look for in the reviews: for proposal.docx review assignment.docx
Change papers with your partner on April 10
Read and write lots of comments on it
Do a summary of your feedback with strengths and things to work on
Feedback due by April 14
MEET with your partner to go over that feedback (highly recommended)
Turn in the rough draft with feedback on it with your final paper

13. Assignments Jeff-Melanie Kurt-Matt Helena-Dylan Bailey-Evan
Jordan to Elijah, Elijah to Bre, Bre to Jordan