Course Readings

  1. American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (ISBN 978-1-4338-3216-1)
  2. Rocco, T. S. & Hatcher, T. (Eds.) (2011). The handbook of scholarly writing and publishing.  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint. (ISBN 978-0-470-39335-2)  Access at:
    https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/purdue/detail.action?docID=706571
  3. Goodson, P. (2017). Becoming an academic writer: 50 exercises for paced, productive, and powerful writing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (See Brightspace for select chapters.)

See Brightspace for additional readings. Prior course texts (below) may also be helpful.

  1. Writing research proposals course text: Terrell, S. R. (2016). Writing a proposal for your dissertation: Guidelines and examples. New York: The Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1-4625-2302-3.
  2. Lit Review course text: Galvan, J. L. (2014). Writing literature reviews (6th ed.). Los Angeles: Pryczak.
  3. Introductory research course text or equivalent: Creswell, J.W. (2014). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.