Writing Papers in Psychology. Eighth Edition

✍ Scribed by Ralph L. Rosnow, Mimi Rosnow

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

WRITING PAPERS IN PSYCHOLOGY offers you frameworks, tips, guidelines, and sample illustrations for writing research reports or literature reviews that must conform to style recommendations of the American Psychological Association. It also is designed to cultivate your organizing, literature retrieval, critical reasoning, and communication skills under deadlines. For more than a decade, this brief, inexpensive, and easy-to-use manual has helped thousands of students in psychology and related fields with the task of writing term papers and reports.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Front Matter......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
About the Authors......Page 8
Brief Contents......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
Exhibits......Page 16
Preface for Instructors......Page 18
Where to Begin......Page 22
Writing in APA Style......Page 24
Your Instructor's Expectations......Page 25
Focusing on Your Objective......Page 26
Scheduling Time......Page 29
Narrowing the Topic......Page 31
Knowing Your Audience and Topic......Page 33
Cultivating an Understanding......Page 34
Looking Over Maya s Shoulder......Page 36
Using the Online Catalog......Page 38
Using PsycINFO......Page 39
PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycEXTRA......Page 41
Using InfoTrac College Edition......Page 42
Tips on Using Other Electronic Databases......Page 43
Print Resources in the Library......Page 46
Taking Notes in the Library......Page 47
Source Credibility......Page 48
Additional Tips When Starting Your Literature Search......Page 49
Library and E-mail Etiquette......Page 50
Object of the Proposal......Page 52
The Literature Review Proposal......Page 54
Ethical Considerations......Page 59
Tempus Fugit......Page 65
Three Broad Types of Research......Page 66
The Basic Structure......Page 68
Introduction......Page 69
Method......Page 70
Results......Page 72
Discussion......Page 74
End Material......Page 75
Organizing Your Thoughts......Page 76
Why You Need an Outline......Page 77
The Rough Outline......Page 78
Making Ideas Parallel......Page 79
Putting Ideas in Order......Page 80
Tricks to Get You Started......Page 82
Outlining After the Fact......Page 83
Four Guidelines: CAPE......Page 85
Reporting Results Clearly......Page 87
Reporting Results Accurately......Page 89
Reporting Enough Information......Page 91
Pentimento......Page 94
Recommended Readings......Page 95
Sorting Through Your Material......Page 98
The Opening......Page 99
Settling Down to Write......Page 101
Ethics of Writing and Reporting......Page 102
Avoiding Plagiarism......Page 103
Lazy Writing......Page 105
Tone......Page 106
Nonsexist Language......Page 107
Verb Tense......Page 108
Common Usage Errors......Page 109
Numerals......Page 111
More on Punctuation......Page 112
Punctuation in Quoted Passages......Page 115
Revising and Polishing......Page 117
General Pointers......Page 118
Title Page Format......Page 120
Headings......Page 122
Italicizing......Page 123
Citations in Text......Page 124
Tables and Figures......Page 127
List of References......Page 128
Proofing and Correcting......Page 141
Posters and Handout Reports......Page 142
Guidelines for the Poster......Page 143
Guidelines for the Concise Report......Page 149
Appendix A Jane Doe's Research Report......Page 152
Appendix B John Smith's Review Paper......Page 170