Displaying Your Findings: A Practical Guide for Creating Figures, Posters, and Presentations / Edition 6

by Adelheid A. M. Nicol PhD, Penny M. Pexman PhD

Overview

This new edition offers readers essential guidance on creating figures that effectively present their findings. Figure examples have been updated to reflect reporting standards and graphics presentation outlined in the sixth edition of the Publication Manual.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433807077
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Publication date:	01/15/2010
Pages:	191
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Adelheid A. M. Nicol, PhD, received her doctorate in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, in 1999. She is an associate professor in the Military Psychology and Leadership Department at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her current research interests are in the area of prejudice and industrial/organizational psychology. She teaches courses in English and in French in cross-cultural psychology, industrial psychology, organizational psychology, personality, research methods, and social psychology.
 
Penny M. Pexman, PhD, earned her doctorate in psychology from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, in 1998. She is now a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In her research, she examines several aspects of language processing in adults and in children, including word recognition processes and figurative language understanding. She is an award-winning teacher and graduate supervisor.
 

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Introduction 3

2 Bar Graphs 15

3 Histograms 37

4 Line Graphs 41

5 Plots 77

6 Drawings 89

7 Combination Graphs 107

8 Pie Graphs 121

9 Dendrograms 125

10 Stem-and-Leaf Plots 129

11 Charts 137

12 Photographs 157

13 Posters 163

14 Visuals for Presentations 177

Index 185

About the Authors 191