| abstract | A concise summary of an APA-style manuscript that includes a brief description of the rationale for the study, methods, results, and conclusions.
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| apparatus subsection | Subsection of the method section of an APA-style manuscript in which any equipment, materials, and measures are described in detail. Sometimes called the materials subsection.
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| discussion section | The section of an APA style manuscript that includes the author's interpretation of the findings of a study and conclusions drawn from the data.
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| introduction | The first substantive section of an APA-style manuscript, which includes the rationale for the study, a literature review, and usually a statement of the hypothesis to be tested.
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| lazy writing | Flaw in writing, closely related to plagiarism, that involves using too much quoted (albeit properly cited) material in a manuscript.
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| manuscript page header | The first two or three words of the title of a manuscript that is typed flush right at the top of the pages of an APA-style manuscript.
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| materials subsection | A subsection of the method section of an APA-style manuscript in which primarily written materials used in a study (e.g., questionnaires) are described.
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| method section | The section of an APA-style manuscript in which the methods used in a study are described in detail.
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| participants subsection | A subsection of the method section of an APA-style manuscript used when humans are employed in a study and describing the nature of the sample.
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| plagiarism | A serious flaw in writing that involves using another person's words or ideas without properly citing the source. See also lazy writing.
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| procedure subsection | The subsection of the method section of an APA-style manuscript that provides a detailed description of the procedures used in a study.
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| reference section | The section of an APA-style manuscript providing an alphabetical list of the bibliographic information for all works cited in a manuscript.
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| results section | The section of an APA-style manuscript that contains a description of the findings of a study. The section normally reports the values of descriptive and inferential statistics obtained.
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| running head | A shortened version of the title to a manuscript (no more than 50 characters) that appears on the title page.
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| subjects subsection | A subsection of the method section of an APA-style manuscript in which the nature of the subject sample employed is described. This section is called subjects if animals were employed in a study.
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