At 11:06 AM -0800 11/22/99, Robert Herdegen wrote:
>At 07:08 AM 11/22/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>
>>When reviewing past literature that refers to subjects should we
>>now properly change the language to participants or can we go with the
>>original author's language of subjects?
>>
>>annette
>>
>
>Don't recall ever seeing any specific guidelines from APA. However, my
>inclination would be to keep "subjects" in direct quotes (you'd , but to
>change to "participants" in all other descriptions of old research. We do
>the same sort of thing to other outdated or anachronistic terms.
Must we now refer to the participants and objects of sentences?
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