Do trailers of movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer have anything in common with the abstract of your dissertation? With all the current hype around the two record-breaking movies, you may well have watched their trailers. If so, did either of these trailers entice you to buy a ticket to see the movie? Maybe, maybe …
By the time you write the abstract of your thesis or dissertation, you will need to have completed your study, finalised your results, and appreciated the implications of your findings. And you’re probably exhausted. However, academic formatting styles provide valuable guidance on the content and format of the abstract. These should help you over the …
If you’re writing the methods section of your research, you will need to describe your sample. (I’m dealing here with the sample description, rather than the sampling method.) So, how should you describe your sample? According to APA guidelines, you should refer to people as ‘participants’, not as ‘subjects’. The term ‘subjects’ is used in …