Making Claims in Papers and Talks  

Oleh:

Spellman, Barbara A. ; DeLoache, Judy ; Bjork, Robert A.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Critical Thinking in Psychology, page 177-195.
Topik: Developing and Assessing Your Claim; Thinking Critically About Your Own Claim; Communicating Your Claim in a Manuscript; Communicating Your Claim in a Talk
Fulltext: Making Claims in Papers and Talks.pdf (119.67KB)

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So, you’ve done some research and have some interesting results; perhaps you’ve even written drafts of your method and results sections. Now you have to write your introduction and discussion and ?gure out how to present your research to the world outside your lab. In addition to describing what you found, how are you going to frame the contribution of your research to psychology? In other words, what claims will you make? This chapter is about how to make claims; that is, how to develop and communicate the sorts of arguments that make for informative, interesting, and persuasive papers and talks. In the ?rst part of the chapter, we describe different types of claims and discuss how to assess your claim; that is, how to create an argument of “the right size.” In the second part, we discuss when and how to communicate your claim; that is, how to use the standard formats of papers and talks to your best advantage. Although we write in terms of empirical papers, these strategies are also relevant for review papers and talks. In the last part of the chapter, we offer tips speci?c to giving talks. We believe that this chapter – focusing on the appropriate way to make research-based claims – will be of particular bene?t to ?edgling psychologists. We admire Neal Miller’s aphorism: “Be bold in what you try, cautious in what you claim.” Good science requires bold thinking. Simply taking the next obvious step in a program of research can be important, even necessary, but major advances depend on the Star Trek approach – “to boldly go where no [psychologist] has gone before.”

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