Helpful Resources for Psychology Majors pt.2

 Online resources:

There is a wealth of information available to students online, but sometimes you don’t know where to start.  Maybe you need help finding articles or properly writing a literature review.  Perhaps you just want to scope out the type of jobs available to a Psychology major.  In any case, we here at iNKBLOT have compiled a series of valuable resources to assist all the psychology majors out there.

Writing resources:

Ever get a writing assignment and not even know where to start?  Or maybe you need to cite some sources and are confused on how to do that properly.  Well fret no more as we here at iNKBLOT  present a list of helpful writing resources designed to make any writing assignment easier to handle.

APA.org:  The American Psychological Association offers free tutorials on academic writing in the Student Research and Writing section.  This section also offers guidelines for creating poster presentations for those preparing for conferences.

EBSCO online library resouce: The leading database and eBook provider for libraries and other institutions with more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases and more than 300,000 eBooks and audiobooks available, EBSCO provides unparalleled access to world-renowned content in all subject areas including magazine and journal articles, ebooks, audio books, and print books.  To access EBSCO, go to the library section of the Saint Leo website, select EBSCO, then log in using the same log-in used for your elion account.  For tutorials on how to use EBSCO effectively, visit EBSCO’s support site.

Literature Search essentials: A handy guide to conducting a literature search that is necessary for writing literature reviews either for a class assignment or as part of a larger research project.

Links for general writing tips:  Confused on how to work in those references?  Frank Pajares has got you covered.  Not sure how to insert you statistics into your paper?  Check out Washington University’s guide.  Or maybe you just need a quick grammar refresher.

This just a small sampling of the various writing help websites that are out there.  Let us know if there are any other websites that we should include on our list.