For your Writing Assignment, you will use your articles to build arguments and conclusions about your results from your Chi-Square tests on your dataset variables.
Sections
1. Title Page
2. Introduction: a review of the literature that you used to build your hypothesis. Your Introduction should:
- Be more than a summary of the articles you read
- Bring together theories and results from a number of studies to provide background for your project and demonstrate how your research hypothesis fits into this current research area and why it's important
- End with your hypothesis
3. Methods: provides detailed information about your research study design. Your Methods section should include:
- the Chi-Square statistical analyses that you ran
- your use of SPSS software
4. Results: report the findings of your statistical analyses, written in the past tense, without bias or interpretation. Your Results section should:
- Focus on being concise and objective
- Organize your results around tables and figures that summarize the results of your statistical analyses
- Include summary text that describes the results in your tables and figures
- Describe the trends in your data but do not interpret it
- Organize your key findings in a logical sequence, generally following your Methods section
- Don't omit relevant findings, even those that don't support your predictions
5. Discussion: interpret and describe the significance of your findings in light of what is already known about the research area you're investigating. Your Discussion should include:
- Restate your research hypothesis from the introduction in different words
- Use evidence from research sources to build arguments about what your study findings mean
- References to previous research: compare your results with findings from other studies
- Analyze your evidence and observations to show how they link to your hypothesis
- End with a strong, final statement that ties the whole paper together and makes it clear the paper has come to an end
6. References List: a list of the sources you cited (not your annotated bibliography)
For more writing help, contact the Writing Center and make an online appointment to meet with one of their consultants.
