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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Where to Begin | |
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| Flowchart to walk yon through Writing Papers | |
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| Writing in APA Style | |
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| Your Instructor's Expectations | |
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| Focusing on Your Objective | |
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| Differences between research reports and review papers | |
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| Scheduling Time | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Narrowing the Topic | |
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| Knowing Your Audience and Topic | |
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| Cultivating an Understanding | |
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| Finding and Retrieving Reference Materials | |
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| Looking Over Maya's Shoulder | |
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| Common terms and jargon on the Web | |
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| Using the Online Catalog | |
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| Brief record from Library of Congress online catalog | |
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| Print Resources in the Library | |
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| Cataloging of psychological materials | |
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| Using PsycINFO | |
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| PsycINFO record of journal article | |
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| PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA, and PsycCRITIQUES | |
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| Tips on Using Other Electronic Databases | |
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| Reference databases available electronically | |
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| Taking Notes in the Library | |
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| Source Credibility | |
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| Additional Tips for Starting Your Literature Search | |
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| Library and E-mail Etiquette | |
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| Developing a Proposal | |
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| Settling on an Objective | |
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| Maya's perceived options for a research proposal | |
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| The Accepted Proposal as a �Letter of Agreement� | |
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| How to Cite Source Materials | |
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| Types of citations illustrated, in section 3.3 | |
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| How to Reference Source Materials | |
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| Types of references illustrated, in section 3.4 | |
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| The Proposal for a Literature Review | |
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| Sample proposal for a literature review | |
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| The Proposal for a Research Project | |
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| Sample proposal for a research project | |
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| Ethical Considerations | |
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| Tempus Fugit! | |
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| Planniing the Research Report | |
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| Three Types of Research Orientations | |
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| The Basic Structure | |
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| The Abstract | |
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| The Introduction | |
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| The Method Section | |
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| Uses of the term validity in research, and assessment | |
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| The Results Section | |
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| The Discussion Section | |
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| The References Section | |
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| The End Material | |
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| Organizing Your Thoughts | |
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| Organizing the Review Paper | |
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| Why You Need, an Outline | |
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| A Strategy That Will Get You Started | |
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| The Rough Outline | |
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| Making Ideas Parallel | |
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| Putting Ideas in Order | |
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| Subdivision of the outline | |
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| Detailed Outline for Writing and Note Taking | |
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| Techniques to Focus Your Thinking | |
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| Cluster outline for John Smith's project | |
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| Outlining After the Fact | |
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| Communicating Statistical Information | |
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| Knowing �How� and �What� to Communicate | |
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| Common statistical abbreviations and symbols | |
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| Communicating Clearly | |
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| Communicating Accurately | |
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| Communicating with Appropriate Precision | |
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| Bar chart based on Jane Doe's Table 1 (in appendix A) | |
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| Communicating Enough Information | |
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| Ethics and Principled Reporting Practices | |
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| Suggested, Readings | |
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| Writing the First Draft | |
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| Sorting Through Your Material | |
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| Creating a Self-Motivator Statement | |
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| Writing the Opening Paragraph of Your Introduction | |
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| Settling Down to Write | |
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| Ethical Considerations Revisited | |
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| steering Clear of Plagiarism | |
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| Not Falling Into Lazy Writing | |
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| Creating the Right Tone | |
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| The Problem of Sexist Language | |
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| Subjects Versus Participants | |
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| Achieving the Right Voice | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Verb Tense | |
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| Making Sure That Subject and Verb Agree | |
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| Other Common Usage Errors | |
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| Numbers, Numerals, Digits, Figures | |
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| More on Punctuation | |
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| Uses of Punctuation in Quoted Passages | |
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| Safeguarding the Draft Manuscript | |
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| Producing the Final Manuscript | |
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| Polishing the Draft Manuscript | |
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| Formatting and Organizing Your Final Manascript | |
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| Formatting the Title Page | |
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| Formatting the Abstract | |
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| Formatting the Headings | |
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| Other Uses of Italics | |
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| Citations and References Revisited | |
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| Postal abbreviations for states and territories | |
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| Footnotes | |
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| Formatting Tables and Figures | |
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| Appendix in Student Papers | |
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| Proofing and Correcting | |
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| Preparing Posters and Concise Reports | |
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| Posters and Handout Reports | |
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| Guidelines for the Poster | |
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| APA, APS, and AAAS poster design standards | |
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| Sample Content and Arrangement | |
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| APA sample poster arrangements | |
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| Modified poster arrangement | |
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| Sample content for modified, poster | |
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| Further Guidelines for the Poster | |
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| Guidelines for the Concise Report | |
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| Concise report for distribution | |
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| Jane Doe's Research. Report | |
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| John Smith's Review Paper | |
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| Index | |