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COURSE SYLLABUS

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Psychology 593LH

How to Write in (Quantitative) Psychology

Fall, 2010



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 Course Organizer:
Lawrence Hubert


27 Psychology Building

Office Hours: Wednesday 1--3

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\noindent Course meets: Tuesday, 3--5, 708 Psychology Building

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This workshop will be devoted to developing  skills in writing for a psychology audience generally, and a quantitative audience more specifically.  There are multiple emphases:

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\noindent A) the formalities of writing a manuscript according to APA style (using the new Sixth Edition of the APA Manual);

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\noindent B) writing coherent and correct (if ever so humble) English prose, with an emphasis on the Strunk and White bible of usage, \emph{The Elements of Style};

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\noindent C) learning to navigate the mechanics of a \LaTeX{}  and \TeX{}  system and editor;

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\noindent D) mastering the specifics involved in writing technical and quantitative material (using the \emph{Not So Short Introduction to} \LaTeXe);

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\noindent E) familiarity with the APA class file and the UIUC Thesis class file;

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\noindent F) an ability to produce and edit one's graphics with Adobe Illustrator (or similar graphics editor).

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\noindent The last four sessions will be partly devoted to editing/revising/critiquing writing samples provided by the workshop members.



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Major References for the Course:

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\emph{Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association}, Sixth Edition, 2010 (referred to as APAM below).  [Available from Amazon.com for \$23.00; from our bookstore, it is about \$40.00]

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William Strunk and E. B. White, \emph{The Elements of Style} (2000) (referred to as S \& W below). [I have a free pdf of this item that you can have.]

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\emph{The Not So Short Introduction to} \LaTeXe{} (referred to as NSSI below). (A free pdf of this item is available.)

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Robert J. Sternberg (Editor), \emph{Guide to Publishing in Psychology Journals}.  (I have three of these available in Room 434.)

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Writing an Empirical Article (Daryl Bem)

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Writing a Literature Review (Nancy Eisenberg)

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Title and Abstracts: They Only Sound Unimportant (Robert Sternberg)

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Introducing Your Research Report: Writing the Introduction (Philip Kendall, Jennifer Silk, and Brian Chu)

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Theories and Hypotheses (Abraham Tesser)

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Writing Effectively about Design (Harry Reis)

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Doing Data Analyses and Writing Up Their Results: Selected Tricks and Artifices (Elena Grigorenko)

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Results That Get Results: Telling a Good Story (Peter Salovey)

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What Does it All Mean? The Discussion (Robert Calfee)

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Documenting Your Scholarship: Citations and References (Randolph Smith)

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Writing for Your Referees (Robert Sternberg)

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Reading Reviews, Suffering Rejection, and Advocating for Your Paper (Melissa Warren)

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Rewriting the Psychology Paper (Richard Wagner)

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Article Writing 101: A Crib Sheet of 50 Tips for the Final Exam (Robert Sternberg)

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Special Symposium Issue on Writing Articles for \emph{Psychological Bulletin} (1995, \emph{118}, Number 2):

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Daryl J. Bem: Writing a Review Article for \emph{Psychological Bulletin}

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Ray Hyman: How to Critique a Published Article

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Robert Rosenthal: Writing Meta-Analytic Reviews

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Scott Maxwell and David Cole: Tips for Writing (and Reading) Methodological Articles

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Special Issue of \emph{Perspectives on Psychological Science} (Volume 4, Number 1, 2009):

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Denise Park: Publishing in the Psychological Sciences: Enhancing Journal Impact While Decreasing Author Fatigue

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Shelley Taylor: Publishing in Scientific Journals: We're Not Just Talking to Ourselves Anymore

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Jerry Suls and Ren\'{e} Martin: The Air We Breathe: A Critical Look at Practices and Alternatives in the Peer-Review Process

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Martin Safer and Rong Tang: The Psychology of Referencing in Psychology Journal Articles

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Seth Schwartz and Byron Zamboanga: The Peer-Review and Editorial System: Ways to Fix Something That Might be Broken

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Nora Newcombe and Mark Bouton: Masked Reviews Are Not Fairer Reviews

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David Trafimow and Stephen Rice: What If Social Scientists Had Reviewed Great Scientific Works of the Past

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Raymond Nickerson: Are Social Scientists Harder on Their Colleagues Than Physical Scientists Were on Theirs in the Past: Commentary on Trafimow \& Rice (2009)

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M. Lynne Cooper: Problems, Pitfalls, and Promise in the Peer-Review Process: Commentary on Trafimow \& Rice (2009)

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\underline{Tentative topic sequences and readings}:

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August 24:

Overview of the course  -- your responsibilities.

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August 31:

APAM -- Chapter 1: Writing for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

APAM -- Chapter 2: Manuscript Structure and Content

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September 7:

APAM -- Chapter 3: Writing Clearly and Concisely

APAM -- Chapter 4: The Mechanics of Style

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September 14:

APAM -- Chapter 5: Displaying Results

APAM -- Chapter 6: Crediting Sources

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September 21:

APAM -- Chapter 7: Reference Examples

APAM -- Chapter 8: The Publication Process

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September 28:

S \& W -- Forward; Introduction; Elementary Rules of Usage; Elementary Principles of Composition

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October 5:

S \& W -- A Few Matters of Form; Words and Expressions Commonly Misused; An Approach to Style; Afterward; Glossary

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October 12:

Producing Beautiful Documents with \TeX{} and \LaTeX{} (Hubert's proselytizing talk (yet, once again))

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October 19:

 NSSI -- Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Things You Need to Know

Typesetting Text

Typesetting Mathematical Formulae



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October 26:

NSSI -- Chapters 4, 5, and 6

Specialities

Producing Mathematical Graphics

Customizing \LaTeX{}




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November 2:

The APA class file (\verb+apa.cls+)

The UIUC thesis class file (\verb+uiucthesis.cls+)


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November 9, 16, 30, and December 7

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The Lab:

 Editing/revising some of our own material

 Graphics editing with Illustrator



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Reading and class presentations with discussion of selected chapters from Robert Sternberg, \emph{Guide to Publishing in Psychology Journals} or the special issues of \emph{Psychological Bulletin} and \emph{Perspectives on Psychological Science}





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