Writing for Psychology Paperback – 9 August 2012

1. Read This First! 2. Writing Reports 3. Writing Essays 4. Finding and Using Reference Material 5. Thinking Critically and Developing Ideas 6. Writing Correctly and With Style 7. Writing for Other Forms of Assessment 8. References App A Statistical Assumptions App B Common measurement abbreviations App C More Plurals App D Flawed Report App E Flawed Essay

Wendy McKenzie has many years of experience as an educator and researcher in psychology, teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate courses in psychology at Monash University. Her main areas of interest are human memory, teaching and learning in higher education (in particular the use of educational technology), and geropsychology.

Robert P. O’Shea is Guest Scientist at Leipzig University where he also wrote and taught courses on scientific writing. He has conducted research and taught at Murdoch University, Southern Cross University, University of Otago, Dalhousie University, Northwestern University, Queen’s University (Canada), and the University of Queensland. He has published extensively in major psychology and neuroscience journals. His research is mainly in cognitive neuroscience, visual perception, and history of psychology and science. He has taken study leaves at Leipzig University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and the University of Rochester. Dr O’Shea has been an editor of Scholarpedia and an associate editor of Perception & Psychophysics.