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13. Social Science Articles
1 2 3 4 5
10-15
pages
long
Published
in an
academic
journal
Contains words
like:
Data, Participants,
this study,
methodology,
further research
20-40
references
Written by
academics
with
university
affiliations
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15. NOT Social Science
1. You are looking at animal behavior
2. You do not have any
communication variables
3. It is not examining one of the main
areas listed in the previous slide
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17. first impressions of people with tattoos
Facebook and friendship formation
credibility of male versus female
television newscasters.
Jealousy and romantic relationships
Sample Topics
18. Refining your topic
1. Baby steps: don’t be too complex!
2. Don’t be too generic! Narrow by
relationship, population, gender,
type of communication or media
3. If your topic has a lot published
about it think of an unexplored
angle.
19. Use this to connect
different variables. For
example: black and
white
and
20. Place your terms in the
same search box for
Psycinfo and CMMC
romantic or interpersonal
21. Use this to look for root
endings. For example:
athlet* looks for athlete,
athletes, athletic
22. “ ”
Use this to search for
phrases. For example:
“social dating”
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24. Text* and jealousy and dating
Friends and benefits and gender
Athlete* and “verbal immediacy”
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32.
33. Common Citation Errors for APA.
1. Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS
2. Every Word Of The Article Title Is Capitalized
3. The journal title is not italicized
4. The ending page number for your article is missing
5. There is no hanging indent
Before
34. Fixing the Errors APA.
1. Change any words that are all caps
2. Make the appropriate words lower case
3. Italicize the Journal Title
4. Look at the PDF of your document and find the
ending page number
5. Create a hanging indent
After
35. Ctrl + T *
Creates paragraphs
with hanging indents
in Microsoft Word.
Command for Mac
*