The Psychologist's Companion Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Macro-Challenges in Writing Papers: Planning and Formulating Papers
- Part II Micro-Challenges in Writing Papers: Presenting Your Ideas in Writing
- Part III Writing and Preparing Articles for Journal Submission
- Part IV Presenting Yourself to Others
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Macro-Challenges in Writing Papers: Planning and Formulating Papers
- Part II Micro-Challenges in Writing Papers: Presenting Your Ideas in Writing
- Part III Writing and Preparing Articles for Journal Submission
- Part IV Presenting Yourself to Others
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
The Psychologist's Companion has been comprehensively updated, revised, and extended for this sixth edition. It is intended for students as well as young professionals and writers at all stages of their careers seeking inspiration and definitive guidelines for better scientific communication. The book is a tremendous resource not only for psychologists but for researchers in other fields as well.
■ The sixth edition includes the latest style guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, sixth edition.
■ A new chapter has been added on preparing a poster presentation.
■ A new chapter has been added that presents a checklist before submitting an article for publication.
■ A new chapter has been added on doing a job interview.
■ A new chapter has been added on doing media interviews.
■ The chapter on writing lectures has been substantially expanded.
■ We have added boxes called “Experience is the best teacher.” The purpose of these boxes is to call out major points about careers in psychology that we have learned from our experiences over the years.
■ We have added “Give it some more thought” boxes to encourage reflection.
■ We have added boxes called “What's wrong here?” for students to apply what they have learned to figuring out what in the box should be different.
■ Many new examples have been added to increase clarity.
■ Existing examples have been updated where appropriate.
■ Checklists have been added to many of the chapters.
■ Advance organizers have been added to provide an overview of the guidelines in a given chapter.
■ The revised Psychologist's Companion is now aimed not only at students but also at junior faculty and even seasoned professionals seeking guidance.
■ All chapters contain enumerated headers for easier use of the book.
■ The book is printed in a more reader-friendly format.
Further covered, with vital updates, are topics such as misconceptions about psychology papers; rules for writing literature reviews and experimental papers; how best to make use of the Internet in research; content, language, and style guidelines; commonly misused words; guidelines for data presentation; standards for evaluating papers; guidelines for submitting papers to journals and winning acceptance; how to write grant and contract proposals; how to find book publishers; and how to write lectures and articles.
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- The Psychologist's CompanionA Guide to Professional Success for Students, Teachers, and Researchers, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016