Includes bibliographical references and index.

Getting started -- Finding and retrieving reference materials -- Developing a proposal -- Planning the research report -- Organizing the review paper -- Communicating statistical information -- Writing the first draft -- Producing the final manuscript -- Preparing posters and concise reports.

"This ninth edition of Writing Papers in Psychology provides frameworks, tips, guidelines, and sample illustrations for college students who are writing research reports or literature reviews that are expected to conform to style recommendations of the American Psychological Association. It also is designed to cultivate organizing, literature retrieval, critical reasoning, and communication skills under deadlines. For more than a decade, this brief, inexpensive, and easy-to-use manual has helped thousands of students in psychology and related fields with the task of writing term papers and reports."--Publisher's website.