The Psychologist's Companion
A Guide to Professional Success for Students, Teachers, and Researchers

This is a comprehensive, readable guide for career success in academic psychology, including writing, speaking, and even finding a publisher.

Robert J. Sternberg (Author), Karin Sternberg (Author)

9781316505182, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2016

552 pages, 14 b/w illus.
23 x 15.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.62 kg

'The newest edition of The Psychologist's Companion is an engaging, accessible and helpful text filled with useful and practical advice for psychologists at all stages of their career. The authors have created a text that will no doubt continue to be an essential resource for students and early-career psychologists amongst others.' Bryan McCann, The Psychologist

The Psychologist's Companion, 6th edition is written for students, young professionals, and even mid-career scholars. It is the most comprehensive guide available to both written and oral communication processes for academic psychologists. It covers the topics necessary for career success, including planning papers, writing papers, presenting data, evaluating one's papers, writing grant proposals, giving talks, finding a book publisher, doing job interviews, and doing media interviews. Because the book is in its sixth edition, it is market tested for success in reaching and engaging its readers. Two special (new) pedagogical features are 'Experience is the best teacher', which draws on the authors' personal experiences to help make the book more personalized and exciting to readers, and 'What's wrong here', which gives readers an opportunity for active learning while they read the book. The authors have written the book in a personable and often humorous style that will keep readers engaged.

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Macro-Challenges in Writing Papers: Planning and Formulating Papers: 1. Eight common misconceptions about psychology papers
2. How to generate, evaluate, and sell your ideas for research and papers
3. Literature research
4. Writing a literature review
5. Planning and writing the experimental research paper
6. Ethics in research and writing
Part II. Micro-Challenges in Writing Papers: Presenting Your Ideas in Writing: 7. A word about content, language, and style
8. Commonly misused words
9. American Psychological Association guidelines for psychology papers
10. Guidelines for data presentation
Part III. Writing and Preparing Papers for Journal Submission: 11. Article writing
12. How to make your paper even better: proofreading, revising, and editing
13. Critical checklist before submitting an article for publication
14. Deciding on a journal and submitting a paper to a journal
Part IV. Presenting Yourself to Others: 15. Preparing a poster presentation
16. Writing a grant or contract proposal
17. How to find a book publisher
18. Writing a lecture
19. Doing a job interview
20. Doing media interviews
Epilogue
References.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM], Research methods: general [GPS]