I How to use the book to prepare final year projects

At some stage in your career as a student of psychology you may find yourself working under supervision on a more extensive piece of research as the principal investigator. For example, in some countries (such as the UK) your undergraduate degree is very likely to involve you in doing so in your final year. Called variously a final year project or a dissertation, it is likely to be a piece of empirical work and will require writing up in the form of a report. To help you with this here are some sections of this website that may be particularly relevant to such a report. (I assume that you are by now familiar with what I have to say in the book.)

1. If your project involves questionnaires, then see Section E for advice on writing up studies involving questionnaires.
2. If you are still at the design stage and intend designing and running an experimental study, see Section G for some tips on how to improve your experiments.
3. Those of you who will be reporting quantitative data should read Section H for some issues to consider in more advanced RESULTS. I also recommend that you read the relevant part of Section B to see how to report whichever statistic you are using and to remind yourself of some of the issues that you need to look out for when using your chosen statistic.
4. If you have manipulated more than one IV but are uncertain about how to interpret main effects and interactions, or how to graph interactions, see Section C.
5. Before you start on your final draft, you should all familiarise yourselves with the rule for writers in Section D.
6. I recommend that all of you who are collecting and reporting quantitative data look at Section F on IVs that are not true independent variables (and the implications of this).