Effective writing in psychology : papers, posters, and presentations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beins, Bernard
Other Authors: Beins, Agatha, 1976-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Writing in psychology
  • Organizing and developing your ideas and writing
  • Formulating your ideas
  • Assessing your sources
  • How to conduct a literature search
  • How to read and summarize a journal article
  • Organizing a paper
  • Elements of style
  • Communicating statistics
  • Preparing APA format papers
  • Writing a thesis or a term paper
  • The introduction section
  • The method section
  • The results
  • The discussion section
  • References : citations in the text and the reference list
  • Final touches : the abstract and formatting details
  • Communicating beyond the research paper
  • Creating poster presentations
  • Giving oral presentations
  • Presenting your work on the Internet
  • Submitting your plan to an ethics committee.