Identify and explain the two APA formatting errors in the student's draft regarding narrative and parenthetical statistics. Then, write a fully corrected version of the sentence.
Case context: A student researcher is writing the draft of their psychology research paper's Results section. They write: 'The participants had a moderate negative relationship, with an of , and the experimental group scored a mean of ().'
Question: Identify and explain the two APA formatting errors in the student's draft regarding narrative and parenthetical statistics. Then, write a fully corrected version of the sentence.
Sample answer: The two errors in the sentence are: 1. The abbreviation 'r' is used within the narrative flow of the sentence ('with an of '). In narrative sentences, statistical terms must be spelled out (e.g., 'correlation'). 2. The term 'standard deviation' is spelled out inside the parenthetical presentation ('()'). In parenthetical reports, statistical terms must be abbreviated (e.g., ''). A corrected version of the sentence is: 'There was a moderate negative correlation (), and the experimental group had a mean of ().'
Key points:
- Diagnoses that the abbreviation 'r' is incorrect in the narrative and should be spelled out (e.g., 'correlation').
- Diagnoses that the term 'standard deviation' inside the parentheses is incorrect and must be abbreviated as 'SD'.
- Provides a grammatically correct and properly formatted APA results sentence with the corrected statistical terms and abbreviations.
Rubric: The response must identify the two distinct APA errors: using a statistical abbreviation in a narrative sentence, and spelling out a statistical term in a parenthetical report. The explanation must justify why these are errors under APA guidelines, and a corrected sentence showing the proper implementation of both rules must be provided.
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