Writing the Empirical Journal Article
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چکیده
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
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