Writing for Psychology - Softcover

Mitchell, Mark L.; Jolley, Janina M.; O'Shea, Robert P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495597813 ISBN 13: 9780495597810

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

WRITING FOR PSYCHOLOGY: A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS, Second Edition, offers tips, checklists, and practical advice to improve student writing. This concise, student-friendly text provides concrete examples of common errors, and helps students to refine critical thinking, library research, revising, editing, and proofing skills, and to avoid plagiarism. The authors focus on helping students to adhere to the basics of American Psychological Association (APA) style. This book is an adaptation of an earlier book published by Robert O'Shea.

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About the Author

Robert O?Shea is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he has taught since 1988. Prior to that he taught at Dalhousie University, Northwestern University, Queen?s University (Canada), and the University of Queensland, having received his PhD from the University of Queensland in 1983. He has published extensively in major psychology and neuroscience journals. His research is on visual perception, especially binocular vision, perception in the real world, depth perception, peripheral vision, and movement perception. He has taken study leaves at Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and the University of Rochester. Dr O?Shea has been an associate editor of Perception & Psychophysics, a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and the coordinator of the 2004 Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0495597813
• ISBN 13: 9780495597810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 267