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Writing for Psychology
A Guide for Psychology Concentrators

Department of Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University

HARVARD
COLLEGE

Writing for Psychology
A Guide for Psychology Concentrators

by
Shelley H. Carson
Jeanne Fama
Kate Clancy

Cover photo credit: Harvard News Office
Copyright 2008, President and Fellows of Harvard College

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ........................................................1
Introduction ....................................................................3
Chapter One
How To Read Sources Critically .......................................5
Chapter Two
Writing a Conceptually Coherent Paper ........................13
Academic Honesty in Writing ........................................22
Chapter Three
Do’s and Don’ts for Effective Writing in Psychology .......24
Chapter Four
APA Format Guidelines…………………………… ..........30
Appendix:
Locating Sources in the Harvard Library System .............37

Acknowledgements
This booklet contains the accumulated wisdom of a number of eminent psychologists and writing experts, including Daryl Bem, Stephen Kosslyn, Brendan Maher, Joseph
M. Williams, and the authors responsible for the American Psychological Association style manual. We have also drawn on the keen observations of Baumeister and Leary
(1997) and Gordon Harvey (2002).
We would like to thank Stephen Kosslyn, C.A. Meyersburg, Kristina Olson, James
Herron, and Laura Chivers for their input and assistance in the preparation of this guide. This guide was prepared with the financial support from the Harvard Writing
Project.

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Writing in the field of psychology (like writing in any specialized field) differs in several respects from the general academic writing style you learned in Expos as a freshman. Psychological writing is a form of scientific reporting that is based on American
Psychological Association publication