Your Psychology Project
The Essential Guide
- Jennifer Evans - Marquette University, USA
Psychology
—J. Bailey, CHOICE
Anxious about your final year Psychology Project? Having trouble getting started?
Your Psychology Project: The Essential Guide for Success clearly maps out all the requirements of a project in psychology. Acting as a definitive survival manual it guides students through every aspect of a psychology project from conception of an idea, to writing up the final draft. It will help students think through the whole research process by bridging the relationship between the research question, the design, and the use of statistical and qualitative analyses. By using clear practical examples this book provides an invaluable insight into applying theory to practice and will equip students with the knowledge, skills and abilty to carry out and write up their thesis project.
Written in a clear and engaging manner Your Psychology Project: The Essential Guide for Success should be essential reading for all students undertaking a psychology research project.
'...this book gives the impression of what it is like to be in a good supervision relationship and having the benefit of the supervisor's experience in taking the reader through their psychology project...I would certainly recommend my undergraduate students to buy this book, and would also suggest it to postgraduate students'
Maggie Allison
Psychology: Learning & Teaching
'This guide will serve well as a handbook for undergraduate psychology students working on senior projects or theses. Clear concise, and well organized., the book instructs the student from the beginning of the project to the final draft and offers advice both specific and general.'
Choice
'...this book gives the impression of what it is like to be in a good supervision relationship and having the benefit of the supervisor's experience in taking the reader through their psychology project...I would certainly recommend my undergraduate students to buy this book, and would also suggest it to postgraduate students'
Maggie Allison
Psychology: Learning & Teaching
'This guide will serve well as a handbook for undergraduate psychology students working on senior projects or theses. Clear concise, and well organized., the book instructs the student from the beginning of the project to the final draft and offers advice both specific and general.'
Choice
The aim for this course is to help students understand how to design an adequate research proposal, which they then can use a starting point for their undergraduate thesis. I think dr. Evans' book excels in giving all the information needed for creating a solid research proposal with clarity and simplicity. At the same time the books does not leave out Qualitative approaches and explain plainly quantitative analysis,which undergrads often forget or lack understanding of. Overall I think this is a very good choice for an undergraduate methodology course.
This text is an essential companion for students undertaking independent research in Psychology. I have used this for my IB Internal Assessment candidates and they will find this relevant for everything from college writing to University final year dissertations. The clear, manageable sections make the minefield of report writing easily accessible for all learners. Highly recommended.
A good text that will help students to get started with their dissertation. I have added it to our Research for Practice module reading list as supplementary reading for those who intend to choose a psychology strand for their final project.
An extremely useful guide for undergraduate students carrying out their first research project. Provides clear and easy to follow instructions for the research process and writing up.
I like the focus of the book.
