Reporting Investigations

• Abstract


  Short paragraph acting as a summary including:

  • Aims
  • Hypothesis
  • Method
  • Sample
  • Results

  Abstracts speed up secondary data analysis as they briefly contain the study
• Introduction


  Guide to the academic background of the study, a justification of aims and hypothesises
• Method


  Outlining in detail how the research was conducted, allowing replicability, including:

  • Design
  • Participants
  • Materials
  • Procedure
• Results


  Summarises data displayed on graphs, statistical tests used for levels of significance
• Discussion


  Explaining the meaning of the data, what it proves/disproves, implications and further study
• References


  Alphabetical list of studies that were used to inform current study

  1. In text - Surname + Date
  2. In reference -

  • Surname + Initial
  • Publication date in brackets
  • Name of article
  • Location of publication
  • Name of Publisher