Event Title
Writing The Literature Review Section: Teaching Undergraduate Psychology Students Scientific Writing
Document Type
Paper
Manuscript Type
perspective
Keywords
writing instructions, undergraduate psychology writing, writing literature review
Description
Many undergraduate psychology students write the literature review section of a scientific paper as a list of summaries without direction or coherence. This paper proposes to teach students to write the literature review section as an argument instead of following the traditional hourglass metaphor approach.
Identifier
FIDC005781
Writing The Literature Review Section: Teaching Undergraduate Psychology Students Scientific Writing
Many undergraduate psychology students write the literature review section of a scientific paper as a list of summaries without direction or coherence. This paper proposes to teach students to write the literature review section as an argument instead of following the traditional hourglass metaphor approach.