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Writing the Empirical Journal Article Daryl J Writing the Empirical Journal Article Daryl J. Bem Cornell University Planning Your Article. 2 Which Article Should You Write? 2 Analyzing Data 2 Reporting the Findings 2 How Should You Write? 3 For Whom Should You Write? 3 Writing Your Article 4 The Shape of An Article 4 The Introduction 4 The Opening Statements 4 Examples of Examples 5 The Literature Review 5 Citations 6 Criticizing Previous Work 6 Ending the Introduction 6 The Method Section 6 The Results Section 7 Setting the Stage 7 Presenting the Findings 8 Figures and Tables 9 On Statistics 9 The Discussion Section 9 The Title and Abstract 10 Rewriting and Polishing Your Article 11 Some Matters of Style 12 Omit Needless Words 12 Avoid Metacomments on the Writing 13 Use Repetition and Parallel Construction 13 Jargon 14 Voice and Self-Reference 14 Tense 14 Avoid Language Bias 14 Research Participants 14 Sex and Gender 14 Racial and Ethnic Identity 15 Sexual Orientation 15 Disabilities 16 Common Errors of Grammar and Usage 16 Compared with versus Compared to 16 Data 16 Different from versus Different than 16 Since versus Because 16 That versus Which 16 While versus Although, But, Whereas 16 Publishing Your Article 16 References 17 A version of this article appears in Darley, J. M., Zanna, M. P., & Roediger III, H. L. (Eds) (2003). The Compleat Academic: A Practical Guide for the Beginning Social Scientist, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Writing the Empirical Journal Article 2 the tenure ladder, the more remote he or she typically You have conducted a study and analyzed the data. becomes from the grounding observations of our science. Now it is time to write. To publish. To tell the world what If you are already a successful research psychologist, then you have learned. The purpose of this article is to enhance you probably haven’t seen a participant for some time. the chances that some journal editor will let you do so. Your graduate assistant assigns the running of a study to a If you are new to this enterprise, you may find it bright undergraduate who writes the computer program helpful to consult two additional sources of information. that collects the data automatically. And like the modern For detailed information on the proper format of a journal dentist, the modern psychologist rarely even sees the data article, see the Publication Manual of the American Psy- until they have been cleaned by human or computer hy- chological Association (APA, 2001) and recent articles in gienists. the journal to which you plan to submit your manuscript. To compensate for this remoteness from our partici- For renewing your acquaintance with the formal and sty- pants, let us at least become intimately familiar with the listic elements of English prose, you can read Chapter 2 record of their behavior: the data. Examine them from of the Publication Manual or any one of several style every angle. Analyze the sexes separately. Make up new manuals. I recommend The Elements of Style by Strunk composite indexes. If a datum suggests a new hypothesis, and White (2000). It is brief, witty, and inexpensive. try to find additional evidence for it elsewhere in the data. Because I write, review, and edit primarily for jour- If you see dim traces of interesting patterns, try to reor- nals in personality and social psychology, I have drawn ganize the data to bring them into bolder relief. If there most of my examples from those areas. Colleagues assure are participants you don’t like, or trials, observers, or in- me, however, that the guidelines set forth here are also terviewers who gave you anomalous results, drop them pertinent for articles in experimental psychology and bi- (temporarily). Go on a fishing expedition for some- opsychology. Similarly, this article focuses on the report thing—anything —interesting. of an empirical study, but the general writing suggestions No, this is not immoral. The rules of scientific and apply as well to the theoretical articles, literature reviews, statistical inference that we overlearn in graduate school and methodological contributions that also appear in our apply to the “Context of Justification.” They tell us what journals. (Specific guidance for preparing a literature re- we can conclude in the articles we write for public con- view article for Psychological Bulletin can be found in sumption, and they give our readers criteria for deciding Bem, 1995.) whether or not to believe us. But in the “Context of Dis- Planning Your Article covery,” there are no formal rules, only heuristics or Which Article Should You Write? strategies. How does one discover a new phenomenon? There are two possible articles you can write: (a) the Smell a good idea? Have a brilliant insight into behavior? article you planned to write when you designed your Create a new theory? In the confining context of an em- study or (b) the article that makes the most sense now that pirical study, there is only one strategy for discovery: you have seen the results. They are rarely the same, and exploring the data. the correct answer is (b). Yes, there is a danger. Spurious findings can emerge The conventional view of the research process is that by chance, and we need to be cautious about anything we we first derive a set of hypotheses from a theory, design discover in this way. In limited cases, there are statistical and conduct a study to test these hypotheses, analyze the techniques that correct for this danger. But there are no data to see if they were confirmed or disconfirmed, and statistical correctives for overlooking an important dis- then chronicle this sequence of events in the journal arti- covery because we were insufficiently attentive to the cle. If this is how our enterprise actually proceeded, we data. Let us err on the side of discovery. could write most of the article before we collected the Reporting the Findings. When you are through ex- data. We could write the introduction and method sections ploring, you may conclude that the data are not strong completely, prepare the results section in skeleton form, enough to justify your new insights formally, but at least leaving spaces to be filled in by the specific numerical you are now ready to design the “right” study. If you still results, and have two possible discussion sections ready to plan to report the current data, you may wish to mention go, one for positive results, the other for negative results. the new insights tentatively, stating honestly that they But this is not how our enterprise actually proceeds. remain to be tested adequately. Alternatively, the data Psychology is more exciting than that, and the best jour- may be strong enough to justify recentering your article nal articles are informed by the actual empirical findings around the new findings and subordinating or even ig- from the opening sentence. Before writing your article, noring your original hypotheses. then, you need to Analyze Your Data. Herewith, a ser- This is not advice to suppress negative results. If your monette on the topic. study was genuinely designed to test hypotheses that de- Analyzing Data. Once upon a time, psychologists ob- rive from a formal theory or are of wide general interest served behavior directly, often for sustained periods of for some other reason, then they should remain the focus time. No longer. Now, the higher the investigator goes up of your article. The integrity of the scientific enterprise requires the reporting of disconfirming results. Writing the Empirical Journal Article 3 But this requirement assumes that somebody out ing. You are justifiably proud of your 90th percentile ver- there cares about the hypotheses. Many respectable stud- bal aptitude, but let it nourish your prose, not glut it. ies are explicitly exploratory or are launched from specu- Write simply and directly. lations of the “I-wonder-if ...” variety. If your study is one For Whom Should You Write? of these, then nobody cares if you were wrong. Contrary Scientific journals are published for specialized audi- to the conventional wisdom, science does not care how ences who share a common background of substantive clever or clairvoyant you were at guessing your results knowledge and methodological expertise. If you wish to ahead of time. Scientific integrity does not require you to write well, you should ignore this fact. Psychology en- lead your readers through all your wrongheaded hunches compasses a broader range of topics and methodologies only to show— voila!—they were wrongheaded. A jour- than do most other disciplines, and its findings are fre- nal article should not be a personal history of your still- quently of interest to a wider public. The social psycholo- born thoughts. gist should be able to read a Psychometrika article on Your overriding purpose is to tell the world what you logistic analysis; the personality theorist, a biopsychology have learned from your study. If your results suggest a article on hypothalamic function; and the congressional compelling framework for their presentation, adopt it and aide with a BA in history, a Journal of Personality and make the most instructive findings your centerpiece. Social Psychology article on causal attribution. Think of your dataset as a jewel. Your task is to cut and Accordingly, good writing is good teaching. Direct polish it, to select the facets to highlight, and to craft the your writing to the student in Psychology 101, your col- best setting for it. Many experienced authors write the league in the Art History Department, and your grand- results section first. mother. No matter how technical or abstruse your article But before writing anything, Analyze Your Data! is in its particulars, intelligent nonpsychologists with no End of sermonette.
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