Effective Writing in Psychology. Bernard C. Beins

Effective Writing in Psychology

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1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Typical Sections in an APA‐Style Research Report

2 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Different Kinds of ResearchTable 2.2 Nonacademic Sources of Information Related to Psychology

3 Chapter 3Table 3.1 Logical FallaciesTable 3.2 Evaluating Internet SourcesTable 3.3 Web Pages, Advocacy, and Coverage for ADHD

4 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Conducting a Literature SearchTable 4.2 Using Different Search Engine ToolsTable 4.3 Strategies for a More Efficient Search in PsycINFO

5 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Important Questions to Answer from the IntroductionTable 5.2 Important Questions to Answer from the Method SectionTable 5.3 Important Questions to Answer from the Results SectionTable 5.4 Important Questions to Answer from the Discussion SectionTable 5.5 Worksheet with Important Questions to Answer when Reading a Journal Art...

6 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Knowing Your ReadersTable 6.2 Revising and Editing Activities

7 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Transitions and Their UsesTable 7.2 Apostrophe Usage When Indicating PossessionTable 7.3 Frequently Misused ContractionsTable 7.4 Pronouns and Antecedent ReferencesTable 7.5 Active and Passive VerbsTable 7.6 Rules for Forming PluralsTable 7.7 Guidelines for Specific Word Use in APA Style

8 Chapter 8Table 8.1 Examples of Text with and without Statistical Information.aTable 8.2 Common Research Questions and the Traditional Statistical Tests Associa...

9 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Writing a Term PaperTable 9.2 Different Research ModelsTable 9.3 The Benefits of Including Different PerspectivesTable 9.4 Strengthening the Logic of Your Argument

10 Chapter 11Table 11.1 Demographics of Research ParticipantsTable 11.2 Common Elements in the Design Subsection

11 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Examples of Presentations of Descriptive StatisticsTable 12.2 Format for Presenting Commonly Used Inferential StatisticsTable 12.3 Some Commonly Used Symbols and Abbreviations Used in MeasurementTable 12.4 Some Common Symbols Used in Presenting the Results of Statistical Test...Table 12.5 Steps to Use to Create a Table with Word®Table 12.6 The Result: Means (and Standard Deviations) of Ratings of Jokes Accord...Table 12.7 Specific Rules and Guidelines Commonly Used for Presenting Numbers and...

12 Chapter 15Table 15.1 Directions for Creating the Running Head and Page Number in WordTable 15.2 Different Levels of Headings in an APA‐Style ManuscriptTable 15.3 Guidelines for Capitalization in APA StyleTable 15.4 Guidelines for Italics in APA StyleTable 15.5 Guidelines for Abbreviations in APA StyleTable 15.6 Guidelines for Creating Series in APA StyleTable 15.7 Guidelines for Using Quotations in APA StyleTable 15.8 Guidelines for Using Common Punctuation Marks

13 Chapter 16Table 16.1 Setting Up a Large, Single‐Sheet Poster Presentation Using PowerPoint...Table 16.2 Steps for Creating a PowerPoint Poster Either on a Single, Large Sheet...

14 Chapter 17Table 17.1 Guidelines for Presentation MaterialTable 17.2 Creating Your PresentationTable 17.3 Preparations at the Conference

15 Chapter 18Table 18.1 Useful Features of Internet Publishing Software That Are Not as Easy o...

List of Illustrations

1 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Examples of plagiarism.Figure 2.2 Revision that avoids plagiarism.

2 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Example of a figure in a Results section.

3 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 Example of an idea map.

4 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 An illustration of (a) a graph with uninformative gridlines that ...

5 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Addressing a counterargument.

6 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Illustration of basic table of data in APA styleFigure 12.2 Example of a table in which different measurements (means and st...Figure 12.3 Example of a table of correlations in APA styleFigure 12.4 Graph with labels of common elements of the graph. Specific term...Figure 12.5 Line graph in APA style. Line graphs are appropriate when the va...Figure 12.6 Bar chart showing error bars in APA style and example of a figur...Figure 12.7 Bar graph showing the same data as Figure 12.6 but with a differ...Figure 12.8 Scatter diagram in APA style showing the relation between temper...Figure 12.9 Illustration of a frequency histogram in which the categories fa...Figure 12.10 Illustration of a frequency histogram with discrete (nonquantit...

7 Chapter 15Figure 15.1 The format of the title page.Figure 15.2 Format of the abstract.Figure 15.3 Headings for the manuscript with multiple levels of headings.Figure 15.4 Possible headings for a multiexperiment manuscript showing all f...Figure 15.5 Illustration of format of short quotations of 40 words or fewer....Figure 15.6 Illustration of format of long quotations of 40 words or more.

8 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 Potential layout of a poster using single sheets of paper.Figure 16.2 Potential layout of a poster using single sheets of paper using ...

9 Chapter 18Figure 18.1 Illustration of creating a hyperlink and a bookmark within a Doc...

10 Chapter 19Figure 19.1 Example of an informed consent form.