Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Davidson College/Psy 402 Senior Capstone (2014)/Course description

For their final paper, seniors will edit an article about psychology, participating in the APS Wikipedia Initiative.

Check out the training for students (see above)

Make your User page -due April 7

Two places to enroll:

1. Education Program at Wikipedia (this page)
2. APSWI, our class code: DavPsy 402226-000-Gre

• Post proposed updates to article Talk page (35 points) -due April 18
• Peer review (10 points) -due April 25
• "Final" article (70 points) -due May 12 (end of senior exams)
• Reflective essay (5 points) -due May 12

Notes on style and sources

Advice on writing for Wikipedia

Here's a nice essay about writing psychology articles in particular

Wikipedia style is really direct

Typical student sentence

“In a study done by Brown and Munger (2010), they manipulated whether the camera was rotating or translating through the scene and found larger representational momentum for rotations.”

APA rewrite

“Brown and Munger (2010) found larger representational momentum for camera rotations compared to translations.”

Wikipedia rewrite

“More representational momentum occurs for camera rotations compared to translations through a scene. ”

Example using journal article and secondary source (textbook)

Remember our library's awesome Research Guides.

Cite the journal article first, and then a textbook to back up a particular interpretation or conclusion. Preferably a specialized text, not from Psy 101. Here's an example of an opening definition of mental rotation.

Mental rotation is the ability to manipulate mental representations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects about various axes of rotation, with larger orientation differences require more processing time.

References for all examples

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