Psychology 2800E Study Guide - Sense, Pollination, Drivespace

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Invisible colleges informal communication network of people having common scientific interests: new ideas and results usually discussed through informal communication, allows scientists to keep up with what"s happening in other labs and also permits researchers to present their ideas in a tentative form before committing themselves in archival publications, discourse community a group of people who share common goals, a public forum, common knowledge, and a specialized language, when writing, must consider discourse community to shape report properly, our discourse community is psychologists, and we expect them to use same style of writing: apa style, the written report, general. Argument a set of reasons in support of a proposition: scientific report is form of this, abstract is overview of argument, introduction gives premise of argument, method tells how evidence was obtained, results presents evidence, discussion draws conclusions from evidence and tells reader where premises came from.