The Making Sense series comprises five concise, readable guides to research and writing for use by students at all levels of undergraduate study. Designed especially for students in psychology and the life sciences, including biology and zoology, this book outlines the general principles of style, grammar, and usage, while covering such issues as how to prepare papers using APA guidelines, how to write research proposals and honours theses, and how to use graphic presentation software when giving an oral presentation. This fifth edition of the book has new material on evaluating Internet sources and avoiding plagiarism, as well as new and updated examples.

1. Communicating in the sciences; 2. Doing research; 3. Keeping track; 4. Ethical issues in research and writing; 5. Writing a report on a book or an article; 6. Writing an essay or research paper; 7. Writing a lab report; 8. Research proposals and theses; 9. Presentation of data; 10. APA editorial style; 11. Documentation in the sciences; 12. Giving a seminar or oral presentation; 13. Writing examinations; 14. Writing with style; 15. Writing a resumé or letter of application; 16. Common errors in grammar and usage; 17. Punctuation; 18. Catchlist of misused words and phrases; Glossary I: psychology and life sciences; Glossary II: grammar; Appendix:weights, measures, and notation

Margot NortheyFormerly Dean of Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Brian TimneyProfessor of Psychology and Dean of the Faculty of Social Science, University of Western Ontario