Practice question · Put in order
Order the standard APA report sections as they appear in a paper.
- Discussion - interpretation, limitations, and implications
- Results - the statistical findings
- Introduction - background, theory, and hypotheses
- Method - exactly how the study was conducted
- Abstract - a brief summary of the whole study
Hints
- The summary comes first; interpretation comes last, after the findings it interprets.
- Method (how) precedes Results (what was found), which precede the Discussion (what it means).
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- Abstract - a brief summary of the whole study
- Introduction - background, theory, and hypotheses
- Method - exactly how the study was conducted
- Results - the statistical findings
- Discussion - interpretation, limitations, and implications
Why
APA papers run abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion. Method must precede results (you describe how before what you found), and discussion comes last because it interprets results already reported.
Practise Reporting Research Findings
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