Real World

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Real World

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Writing for Psychology

• Nancy Marenick
• The Writing Centre
• 867-5221

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The Purpose

• Applying a psychological perspective to your real
  life
• Learning 10 concepts or theories
• Improving your writing skills

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Stages of the Writing Process
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Writing Rewriting Editing Proofreading
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Logic

• Clearly show the relevance of the incident or
  experience to the concept
• Make logically defensible links between aspects
  of your personal experience and concepts,
  theories and research results

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Content

• 1st paragraph Describe or define that concept or
  theory, citing your textbook as the reference
• E.g. As Pavlov theory of classical conditioning
  (page . textbook) assumes ...
• 2nd paragraph Describe an incident in your own
  (or somebody elses) life

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Content

• Next Paragraph/s Show how the incident is
  related to the concept or theory that you
  described in the first paragraph
• Cite your references, while writing

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References

• The bystander effect refers to the fact that the
  greater the number of bystanders who witness an
  emergency, the less likely it is that any of them
  will help.23

23. Textbook, p.343.
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Supporting Your Arguments

• Paraphrase carefully
• Always cite paraphrases
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Avoiding Plagiarism

• But I didnt realize
• Unintentional Intentional

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Essential Components
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Transitions

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Conclusion

• Connection
• Message
• Reflect
• Project

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Conclusion

• This is a good example of the bystander effect
  because I was the only person on the entire block
  to help this lady frantically look for her cat,
  after her being outside asking for help for
  nearly four hours. It was an experience which
  truly displayed to me the in the flawed
  priorities of individuals and helped me to
  understand how important it is to help people
  when they look like they need it, because you may
  be the only one willing to spare some time.

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Write, Proofread, and Edit

• How many drafts is that??????

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Proofread

• When the final choice was made.
• Jamie won the election when the final choice was
  made.
• When the final choice was made, only 50 of the
  students had voted.

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Proofread

• They came with a proposal for the new research
  project. A proposal too good to refuse.
• They came with a proposal for the new research
  project, a proposal too good to refuse.

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Sentence Structure

• She was not wearing a jacket, she was walking up
  and down that street with a cane, she was
  knocking on people's doors, as well as stopping
  to talk to anyone and everyone who walked or
  drove by.

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Sentence Structure

• As I hurried to get my winter clothing on I
  called to my roommates to help this woman look
  for her cat, however, they were not interested.

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• ?
• __________________ . _________________
• __________________ , and ______________
• __________________ _________________
• __________________ however, _________

Complete sentence
Complete sentence
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There/Their

• Expletive construction and not the subject of
  the sentence
• In that place
• Possession, belongs to

• There is. . . ?
• Put it there. ?
• They argued their case. ?

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Good, Better, Best

• There are many ways to describe the bystander
  effect. They are .
• The bystander effect is described as ..
• Smith described the bystander effects as .

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Then/Than

• _____ she went to the store.
• Then she went to the store.
• He is faster____ his friend.
• He is faster than his friend.

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Would have / Would of

• I ___________ gone to class, but I was sick.
• I would have gone to class, but I was sick.

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Its/Its (it is)

• _____ your turn to present your proposal.
• Its your turn to present your proposal.
• The dog wagged ___ tail.
• The dog wagged its tail.

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Affect/Effect

• Affect Action Verb
• The researchers results affected later studies.
• Effect Result Noun
• The effect of the drums added suspense.

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Apostrophes and Possessives

• In the 1990s, In the 1990s
• The poets poem The poets poem
• The childrens poems The childrens poems
• The poems are The poems are

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Apostrophes

• In the 1990s, In the 1990s
• In the 90s In the 90s
• The researchers work The researchers work
• The researchers work The researchers work

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