The Psychologist's Companion: A Guide to Writing Scientific Papers for Students and Researchers

About this book

The Psychologists Companion is intended for students as well as young professionals and writers at all stages of their careers seeking inspiration and guidelines for better scientific writing. This book is also a resource for researchers in related fields. It has been comprehensively updated revised and extended for its fifth edition and includes the latest style guidelines of the American Psychological Associations Publication Manual (sixth edition 2009) as well as chapters encompassing the entire research process from doing literature research and planning an experiment to writing the paper. It features new chapters on literature research; ethics; and generating evaluating and selling ideas. The Psychologists Companion also provides information on writing book proposals grant proposals and lectures.