Overview

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.

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Author:   L. Woodrow
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   2.824kg
ISBN:  

9780230369979

ISBN 10:   0230369979
Pages:   199
Publication Date:   25 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction PART I: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS IN WRITING ABOUT QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH 2. Writing about Research Design 3. Reliability, Validity and Ethics 4. Writing about Participants 5. Presenting Descriptive Statistics PART II: WRITING ABOUT SPECIFIC STATISTICAL PROCEDURES 6. Writing about T-tests 7. Writing about ANOVA, ANCOVA and MANOVA 8. Writing about Regression 9. Writing about Correlation 10. Writing about factor analysis 11. Writing about Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) 12. Writing about Non-parametric Tests PART III: PUBLISHING QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS 13. Publishing Research: Journal Articles 14. Publishing Research: Book Chapters and Books 15. Academic Style Useful resources for conducting and writing about quantitative research in applied linguistics Statistical tests and uses

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“In recent years, there has been an endless stream of books on how to write research papers or reports … . this book is very suitable for new researchers when they step into the field of applied linguistics. … this book acts as a really good reference book and provides great help to researchers in conducting quantitative research efficiently. It offers a body of guidelines for new researchers in the field of applied linguistics when they write about quantitative research.” (Honggang Liu, BAAL, Issue 111, 2017)

In recent years, there has been an endless stream of books on how to write research papers or reports ... . this book is very suitable for new researchers when they step into the field of applied linguistics. ... this book acts as a really good reference book and provides great help to researchers in conducting quantitative research efficiently. It offers a body of guidelines for new researchers in the field of applied linguistics when they write about quantitative research. (Honggang Liu, BAAL, Issue 111, 2017)

Author Information

Lindy Woodrow is a Senior Lecturer (Honorary) at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published in the areas of academic writing, academic adaptation and second language motivation. She has taught on thesis and dissertation writing courses and is a regular reviewer and statistics advisor for high ranking journals in applied linguistics.

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