Pr1

• Quantitative research


  Positive scientific method which refers to a general set of orderly discipline procedures to acquire information
• Qualitative research


  Experiences, understanding and words of the individual
• Secondary sources


  • Literature information based on Review Articles
  • Literature review
  • Journal Article
  • Audio and videos
• Primary sources


  • Survey data
  • Statistical data
  • Newspapers and Magazines
  • Textbooks
  • Interviews
  • Audio/video recordings
  • Diary/journal
• Among the different types of literature sources, peer-reviewed journal articles are considered the most credible
• Journal article


  Authors directly collected the data and conducted the wide research
• Review


  Author collated data from previously published research and do not have first-hand experience in gathering data
• Purpose of citing literature sources

  • Give credit to other writers and researchers
  • Support evidence in the researcher's argument
  • Easily locate sources about a certain topic
• In-text citation


  Appears in between the researcher's writing
• Reference list


  Usually found at the last part of a research paper
• APA 7th Edition


  Commonly used by psychology majors, follows the author and year of publishing format of in-text citation
• Summarizing is writing the core of the text to narrow down a text and highlight its main arguments
• Paraphrasing is using different words to present the same ideas from the original text, used with short portions of text
• Quoting is using the exact words used in a short segment of the original source
• Bibliography lists all the literature used and cited in the body text of a research paper, in alphabetical order with hanging indentation
• Citation software


  Word processing software or online citation generator that can help format references using different citation styles