Writing about Quantitative Research in Applied Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Lindy Woodrow (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With increasing pressure on academics and graduate students to publish in peer reviewed journals, this book offers a much-needed guide to writing about and publishing quantitative research in applied linguistics. With annotated examples and useful resources, this book will be indispensable to graduate students and seasoned researchers alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Writing about Research Design....Pages 11-24
Reliability, Validity and Ethics....Pages 25-35
Writing about Participants....Pages 36-48
Presenting Descriptive Statistics....Pages 49-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Writing about T-tests....Pages 63-72
ANOVA, ANCOVA and MANOVA....Pages 73-84
Writing about Regression....Pages 85-95
Writing about Correlation....Pages 96-109
Writing about Factor Analysis....Pages 110-121
Writing about Structural Equation Modelling....Pages 122-134
Writing about Non-parametric Tests....Pages 135-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Publishing Research: Journal Articles....Pages 149-161
Publishing Research: Book Chapters and Books....Pages 162-169
Academic Style....Pages 170-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-199

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics; Language Teaching; Science, general; Printing and Publishing