Other tips for reading between the lines are presented. The second most important words are those in the abstract, which gives the conclusion reached by the study investigators. The most important words in any paper are the few represented in the title of the manuscript. You have to infer that from what is not said. Authors are not inclined to tell you what they did not do. But, when reading, you must be as mindful of what is not there as you are of what is there. If you want to understand the results, you have to understand how they were generated, and for that, you have to comb through the methods section, line by line. This chapter argues that when reading journal articles, the methods section of a results paper is the most important part. In everyday life, we usually ignore the “fine print”, but that can be a mistake when reading research papers. Indeed, it is likely that the only persons reading them from beginning to end are the authors, referees, and copy editors. By the end of the book you will have amassed a wealth of knowledge that will help you understand human nature – including your own – in all its colours.Results papers are akin to reference books in that they are not meant to be read like novels, from cover to cover. Using real-life examples, including celebrity samples, you will be challenged to put your new-found knowledge to the test. It can help us make choices for our future, showing us what our desires are, and even what jobs and partners may suit us best. Our handwriting exposes how we interact with the world and the people around us, and also how we cope with stress and express emotions. The way we write can tell the world a huge amount sometimes more than the things we write about. Because every aspect of penmanship – the height of an ‘h’, the curliness of a ‘g’, the pressure of the pen on the paper – is a collection of signals that we are giving out without meaning to. Written by the UK’s leading handwriting expert, Reading Between the Lines will show you how to judge someone’s handwriting as a whole and how to examine it in detail. In fact, so revealing is your writing that in Japan all CVs are still written by hand. But handwriting analysis can divulge everything from a person’s timidity to their ambition, from their desire to please to their need to control. Handwriting is something of a dying art nowadays, as we tap messages to each other day after day. Find out what your handwriting says about you!
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