Welcome to this website, which accompanies the latest edition of the book, Designing and Reporting Experiments in Psychology. The book provides advice on how to go about writing reports of practical work. You can learn more about the book by reading the preface, or view the table of contents or download a sample chapter.

The material on this website complements the material in the book. Together they are designed to help you develop your knowledge of how to design studies and write practical reports.

You will find tips and advice on many aspects of report writing, from basic rules for writers through advice on writing reports of studies in which you have made extensive use of questionnaires, to advice for advanced students on how to improve your experiments and issues to consider in the RESULTS sections of your later reports. You can also find a section on how to use the book and this website to help you write your final year project. You can also find an index of concepts covered on this website to supplement the index of concepts covered in the book.

I hope that you find the material on this site helpful. Please let me know what you think about it. My e-mail address is p.harris@sheffield.ac.uk

Above all, I hope that the book and this website helps you with the task of designing good studies and writing good practical reports.