Writing for Psychology

D'habitude les psychologues qui sont des auteurs publies ecrivent des sommaires, des recherches ou bien des critiques. Alors il s'agit de trois sortes d'ecrire a perfectionner. Il y a la composition courte et bien dite, du style plutot informel des notes et des sommaires. Ensuite il y a le rapport sur des experiences au laboratoire, du style moins court, du ton et vocabulaire professionnels des annotations, des paraphrases et des sommaires du saillant. Enfin il y a la recherche evaluee, du style detaille, du ton et du vocabulaire professionnels des arguments, des preuves, des notes au bas de la page, et de la bibliographie. On arrive a faire bien tous les trois lorsqu'on comprend le sujet et lorsqu'on se rend compte des connaissances des lecteurs, tous les deux tres importants.

Psychology is a field where writers aim for conclusions to their own fieldwork, critical reviews of research case studies, explanations and summaries. They do this through three basic kinds of WRITING FOR PSYCHOLOGY: the exam essay, the experimental laboratory report, and the research evaluation or the term paper. Christopher Thaiss and James F. Sanford say this mostly technical type of writing practice runs well as notes and postevent summaries to increase learning; marginal notes, important point paraphrases and summaries, and reading response logs to improve observation and reading; and clearly organized paragraphs and white space to experiment with consistently simple format and style to make it easy for readers to pick up on main ideas. Audience, format and purpose work together in final copy: formal or informal tone and technical level of language adjust to the assumed knowledge level of the reader. Jill M. Scott et al's THE PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT WRITER'S MANUAL and this nicely orgaized and written guide to American Psychological Association rules work wonders with Ron Blicq's TECHNICALLY-WRITE, Charles T. Brusaw's HANDBOOK OF TECHNICAL WRITING, THE MICROSOFT MANUAL OF STYLE FOR TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS, and the TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION books by John M. Lannon and by Maris Roze.