The academic hall will tell you the steps to write a psychological paper:
Choose a good theme.
Choosing a topic that you are familiar with, interested in and good at has the advantage of rich theoretical or practical experience, and writing can achieve the effect of many a mickle makes a mickle. For example, my group counseling thesis and novel personality thesis were written on the basis of reading a lot of books and doing a lot of practice. Later, I wrote a paper on virtual social psychology with my school sister. I have read a lot of materials and found a lot of literature, but I write well. I feel that nothing can be squeezed out. Because I am a stranger to this subject, I am reluctant to write. Therefore, don't force yourself when writing a paper. What comes from the heart is a good work.
2. Make a good framework.
Some schools' psychology departments don't offer specialized courses in thesis writing skills. Here is a supplement to the classification and format of the paper. At present, the thesis can be roughly divided into four categories:
First, summarize the thesis. The framework is roughly divided into "what to do, why to do it, and how to do it". By sorting out, synthesizing and evaluating the published materials and investigating the current research progress, the problems are clarified. It's kind of like a theoretical introduction in a textbook. The premise of writing a summary paper is that individuals need to have a large number of documents and books accumulated, and have a deep writing foundation on a certain topic. There are at least 50 references at the end of the article, preferably in both Chinese and English.
Second, empirical papers. Through the analysis of scale, questionnaire and other data, some conclusions are drawn and the investigation of this topic is summarized. The specific format is divided into: preface (on the basis of summarizing relevant literature, put forward the problem to be studied and explain the purpose of studying this problem); Methods (describe the methods used in the study); Results (report the results found in the study); Discussion (explanation and discussion of research results). The advantage of writing empirical papers is that you can churn out a long speech with a little data. Especially in the discussion session, the results of each set of data can be expanded in detail, extending to the future research direction and application field. The premise of writing empirical papers is to be familiar with the software operation of psychological data. For example, Excel, SPSS, SAS, etc. In particular, the version of SPSS 16.0 is in English. Although there is also a Chinese version of SPSS 17.0, it is very easy to be garbled and is not recommended. For example, the author's mathematics and SPSS are very poor, so he seldom writes empirical papers. But now there are websites such as questionnaires, which make it easier to collect data and shape charts. Times are progressing.
Third, speculative papers. Through the scrutiny of predecessors' viewpoints and conclusions, we can get a new direction of theoretical analysis and even put forward our own new theory. My tutor once said that summing-up is not suitable for you people to write your graduation thesis, because it is difficult to get grades if you just list and summarize the previous theories; Speculation is not something you can write casually. It takes hundreds of years for a theory to be put forward, so it is not so easy to have new things. Therefore, this field is basically unattended. If you have confidence in yourself and are interested, you must choose this direction. It is suggested to find a knowledgeable and responsible teacher as a guide, so that even if you don't get high marks in your defense, you won't accidentally fail. It is better to be cautious when it comes to diplomas.
Fourth, other categories, such as psychological counseling case analysis, methodology papers, etc. The case must be done by yourself, not copying others, or consulting as a visitor and then writing a report as a consultant. The author of the paper on methodology has little contact with it, so he generally introduces a new research method and improves the existing research method. This kind of paper is very obscure and easy to go astray, so readers are not advised to choose it.
3. Content filling.
Make an outline and save the reading, and it will be easy to make up the accumulated content. It took me about a week to finish the novel personality thesis mentioned at the beginning of the article, because I have read the original work and related materials many times. As the saying goes, reading is endless, and writing is like a god. It feels great to be in one go.
Here are some questions and answers:
First, what you want to write has already been written by others. What's the point of writing again Second, I don't think how to write and read this passage is as smooth as what is written in the literature. Can you just copy it down and fill in his name in the literature? Let's answer it for everyone.
Answer 1: If you can write something that others have not written, then you are too powerful and the chances are relatively small. Just because someone else has written it doesn't mean you can't write it. As long as you write your own style and opinions, there is still the possibility of innovation.
Answer 2: If you quote a sentence or an opinion, you can do what the question says. If you quote a long passage, you can't copy it. When the number of words you quote exceeds the prescribed standard (I don't know how many, it depends on what paper appraisal software your school uses), it is plagiarism, which is illegal and you should bear legal responsibility! But the original author wrote it really well. If you really admire him, what should you do? Here's a trick my senior taught me: Read that passage repeatedly, close your eyes after reading it, and describe it in your own words until the sentence becomes more formal when you describe it, and that passage becomes your own thing. The logic of a paper comes out like this, so don't express it too colloquially. Don't appear many modal particles and messy punctuation marks. With such rigorous narratives as 1234, 1. 1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, people can see at a glance that their thinking is clear and they will not suffer when defending.
4. modify.
In this way, the first draft of a paper was born. You can revise it yourself first, or you can revise it with your classmates. It may help you pick out some formatting problems or typos that you are not aware of. Then send it to the tutor for revision, and then take it back and revise it yourself. Basically, the dust settles.