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psychology tends to come from the ideas behind the writing, not the writing itself. This booklet is designed to acquaint you with the basic principles of psychological writing and to help you avoid pitfalls that beginning writers in the field often encounter. First, in How to Read Sources Critically, we will discuss why it is important to for you
This is a brief guide to essay writing, originally written for the the MSc Psycholinguistics Handbook. 1 Section 2 covers the issues in writing an argumentative essay. Section 3 covers
Chapter 5 provides guiding principles for writing literature reviews and an actual sample from a former student of mine, including the first draft, an edited version, and the final draft. Seeing actual examples of the process will give you insight into how to improve your own writing.
There are three main steps: (1) selecting a research topic, (2) collecting and reading the relevant articles, and (3) writing the review article. This straightforward-sounding process in fact requires quite a bit of work. Suitable topics must be selected with care and discrimination.
Abstract. People are capable of thinking about the future, the past, remote locations, another person’s perspective, and counterfactual alternatives. Without denying the uniqueness of each process, it is proposed that they constitute different forms of traversing psychological distance.
Literature reviews survey research on a particular area or topic in psychology. Their main purpose is to knit together theories and results from multiple studies to give an overview of a field of research.
This literature review examines studies on the development of deception among young children, arguing that the emergence of lying and lying behaviors is normal and reflects children’s advanced cognitive development with age.
