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What Do You Think?: How Clear Hypotheses Lead to Better Quality Papers

Sarah LoCasio

Managing Editor, Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research (AJPOR)

A hypothesis tells us what you think. Clear hypotheses are the element on which many papers

depend. A well-written introduction and literature review will naturally flow into a hypotheses.

They show why the topic is important, what is already known, what the research gap is, and what

you might expect based on that previous research. After the hypotheses, the methodology section

explains how these hypotheses can be tested, the results show what you found (and whether these

results were supported).

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