Writing Papers in Psychology A Student Guide

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Pub. Date: 2000-05-30
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

For more than a decade, this brief, inexpensive, and easy-to-understand "how to" manual has helped thousands of students in psychology and related fields with the task of writing a term paper and research report. Now even more up-to-date, this best-seller includes a wealth of new information and has been updated to reflect the latest APA manual style.

Table of Contents

Getting Started
1(13)
Where to Begin
1(1)
Focusing on Your Objective
2(1)
Three Types of Essays
3(1)
Three Types of Research Reports
4(2)
Scheduling Time
6(3)
Choosing a Topic
9(1)
Shaping the Topic
10(1)
Knowing Your Audience and Topic
11(1)
Cultivating a Sense of Understanding
12(2)
Finding and Using Reference Materials
14(23)
Using the Library
14(1)
Looking Over Eric's Shoulder
15(4)
How Material is Cataloged
19(2)
The Library Stacks
21(2)
Using Reference Sources
23(3)
PsycINFO, PsycLIT, and Psychological Abstracts
26(2)
Social Sciences Citation index
28(5)
The Fugitive Literature
33(1)
Taking Notes in the Library
34(1)
Additional Tips
35(1)
Library Etiquette
36(1)
Drafting the Proposal
37(12)
Purpose of the Proposal
37(1)
The Essay Proposal
38(1)
The Research Proposal
38(1)
Ethical Considerations
38(10)
Tempus Fugit
48(1)
Organizing the Essay
49(6)
Where to Start
49(1)
Making Ideas Parallel
50(1)
Putting Ideas in Order
51(1)
Template for Writing and Note Taking
52(1)
Outlining After the Fact
53(2)
Planning the Research Report
55(7)
The Basic Structure
55(1)
Abstract
56(1)
Introduction
56(1)
Method
57(1)
Results
58(1)
Discussion
59(1)
References
60(1)
End Material
60(1)
Organizing Your Thoughts
61(1)
Writing and Revising
62(16)
Sorting Through Your Material
62(1)
The Self-Motivator Statement
63(1)
The Opening
63(2)
Settling Down to Write
65(1)
Ethics of Writing and Reporting
66(1)
Avoiding Plagiarism
67(1)
Lazy Writing
68(1)
Tone
69(1)
Nonsexist Language
69(1)
Voice
70(1)
Verb Tense
70(1)
Agreement of Subject and Verb
71(1)
Common Usage Errors
71(2)
Numerals
73(1)
Punctuation
73(2)
Quotations
75(2)
Revising
77(1)
Producing the Final Draft
78(17)
General Pointers
78(1)
Title Page Format
79(1)
Headings
80(2)
Underlining
82(1)
Citations in Text
83(2)
Tables and Figures
85(2)
List of References
87(6)
Proofing and Correcting
93(2)
Appendix A Sample Essay 95(18)
Appendix B Sample Experimental Research Report 113(16)
Appendix C Sample Archival Research Report 129(18)
Index 147

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