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1、RunningHead:EMPIRICALSOCIALSCIENCEPAPERWritingtheEmpiricalSocialScienceResearchPaper:AGuideforthePerplexedJoshPasekUniversityofMichiganJanuary24,2012CorrespondenceaboutthismanuscriptshouldbeaddressedtoJoshPasek,UniversityofMichigan,DepartmentofCommunicati
2、onStudies,105S.StateStreet,5413NorthQuad,AnnArbor,MI48109(email:josh@joshpasek.com).Additionalnotesondatacollectionandacknowledgementsforanyassistanceprovidedbyothersshouldgohere.Inthiscase,theauthorthanksKathyHirsh-Pasek,RossieHutchinson,andRobertaGolink
3、offfortheirhelpfulsuggestionsandadviceinearlierdraftsofthismanuscript.Thecoverpageshouldhavenoadditionalinformation.1RunningHead:EMPIRICALSOCIALSCIENCEPAPERWritingtheEmpiricalSocialScienceResearchPaper:AGuideforthePerplexedAbstractStudentssometimesfindthe
4、generalprocessofwritinganempiricalresearchpapertobedaunting.Yet,whentheprocessisapproachedinasystematicway,studentscanbecomemorecomfortablewiththewritingandstandardformattingusedinanempiricalarticle.Accordingly,thecurrentpaperservesasatemplateforthebuddin
5、gsocialscientist.Init,Idescribethevarioussectionsofaresearchpaperinordertoillustratethestructureofanintroduction,methodssection,resultssection,anddiscussionsectioninaformatfittingthforthe6editionoftheAmericanPsychologicalAssociation.Asinmostempiricalresea
6、rchpapers,thefirstsectionisanabstract,ashortoutlineofthepaperthatclarifiesbothwhatthepaperwillbeexamining,whatisfound,andinmostcasesaonelineexplanationofwhythefindingsareimportanttothefield.Accordingly,thispapershouldhelptoclarifytheprocessofproducinganem
7、piricalarticle.2RunningHead:EMPIRICALSOCIALSCIENCEPAPERWritingtheEmpiricalSocialScienceResearchPaper:AGuideforthePerplexedBroadboldstatementsinterestreaders.Hence,theempiricalpaperisbestinitiatedwithalarge-scalestatementaboutthephenomenonofinterest,making
8、aclear1caseforwhythegeneraltopicofthepaperisworthyofexamination.Papersalwayshavesomereferencetotherealworld,anditisimportanttomakeitevidentthatthereisareal-worldrelevanceforthetopicofthepapernearthebeginningofamanus