Materials Other Than Journal Article Chapter 6

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Materials Other Than Journal Article Chapter 6
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Theses, Dissertations, and Student Papers

• Final Manuscript
• Content Requirement
• Preliminary Pages
• Introduction
• Method, Results, and Discussion
• Summary
• References
• Appendixes
• Manuscript Preparation Requirements
• Paper, corrections, copies, and margins
• Chapters
• Figures, tables, and footnotes
• Pagination
• Spacing

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Theses, Dissertations, and Student Papers

• Final Manuscript vs. Copy Manuscript
• Final manuscripts are meant to be read by their
  final audience, not editors, reviewers, and
  typesetters. Theses, Dissertations, and Student
  Papers
• Copy manuscripts are papers submitted journal
  editors for review and publication and are meant
  to be read by editors, reviewers, and
  typesetters. Journal Articles

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Theses, Dissertations, and Student Papers

• Content Requirement
• Preliminary Pages
• Title page
• Approval page
• Acknowledgement page
• Table of contents
• List of tables and figures
• Abstract
• Dissertation Abstracts International

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Theses, Dissertations, and Student Papers

• Content Requirement (Continued)
• Introduction
• Its similar to introduction in a journal article
  but the literature background is developed more
  comprehensively in theses or dissertations.
• Presents the specific problem
• Develop the background
• State the purpose and rationale

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Theses, Dissertations, and Student Papers

• Content Requirement (Continued)
• Method, Results, and Discussion
• Its similar to method, results, and discussion
  sections in a journal article.
• Method How the study is conducted.
• Results Summarize the data collected and the
  statistical or data analytic treatment used.
• Discussion Evaluate and interpret the
  implications of the results

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Theses, Dissertations, and Student Papers

• Content Requirement (Continued)
• Summary
• The trend is to substitute the abstract for the
  summary.

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Theses, Dissertations, and Student Papers

• Content Requirement (Continued)
• References
• Appendixes
• Verbatim instructions to participants
• Original scales or questionnaires
• Raw data

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Theses, Dissertations, and Student Papers

• Manuscript Preparation Requirements
• Paper, corrections, copies, and margins
• Chapters
• Figures, tables, and footnotes
• Pagination
• Spacing

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Converting the Dissertation Into a Journal
Article

• Trimming the Length
• Its not a matter of cutting and pasting, but
  one of selecting and rewriting.
• Be selective in presenting the problem
• Narrow the focus to a specific topic
• Try not to report everything in the results
• Be selective in the references chose the most
  salient

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Converting the Dissertation Into a Journal
Article (Continued)

• Writing Style
• Take a special care to find out how your
  universitys requirements depart from APA style
• Quality of expository writing
• Strive for clarity
• Get rid of extraneous words
• Avoid excessive reporting and repetition
• Be explicit, but not overly detailed
• Use active voice

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Converting the Dissertation Into a Journal
Article (Continued)

• Interpretation of Data
• Avoid overinterpretation of the data
• The results of this research should generalize
• The results of this research are probably
  generalizable.

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Material for Oral Presentation

• Concentrate only one or two main points
• Keep reminding the central theme by relating each
  major section of the presentation to the theme
• Tell the audience what are going to say, say it,
  and then tell them what you have said ( As I did
  ? )

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Material Published in Abbreviated Form

• A brief report summarizes the procedure and
  results of a study.