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Appendices - Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper - Research Guides at University of Southern California

Appendices are always supplementary to the research paper. As such, your study must be able to stand alone without the appendices, and the paper must contain all information including tables, diagrams, and results necessary to understand the research problem. In contemplating if information should be placed in an appendix, consider asking yourself, if it were removed, the reader would still be able to comprehend the significance, validity, and implications of your research even if that additional data or information was missing or is the information so voluminous that it would breakup the narrative flow of the paper.