August 2020

Write with Purpose: What Do You Want Your Paragraph To Do?

Communicating Psych Science, General Writing Tips, The APA Style Research Report / , , /

Students often have the greatest anxiety about writing the Introduction and Discussion sections of an APA style paper. Part of the problem is that they struggle with writing properly constructed paragraphs. This guide from the University of Newcastle not only describes several types of paragraphs, but outlines what the topic, supporting, and concluding sentences should […]

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Video: Misunderstanding Scientific Studies (with John Oliver)

01. Psychology as a Science: Thinking Like a Researcher, Communicating Psych Science, Research Methods, Writing for a Non-Psych Audience / , , , /

On this short (4:05) clip from Last Week Tonight, John Oliver outlines how to be a better consumer of scientific information (e.g., don’t give too much significance to individual studies) and how communication to the public can misinterpret findings altogether.

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Principles to Improve Instructional Videos’ Effectiveness

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This is an article on The Effortful Educator from Blake Harvard (Twitter: @effortfuleduktr) that reviews “Five ways to increase the effectiveness of instructional video.” Going forward, because more of us will need to create videos for our courses, we should learn as much as we can about making those videos as effective as possible. In

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