PSY tutor needed (1 Viewer)

[mooshie]

Hi guys,

This is my first time on these forums and i'm slightly embarassed because i'm actually here looking for a PSY tutor - and i'm in my third year! *sighs*

I was looking for someone who could possibly help me with essay writing, as i find i spend ages and ages researching and writing my essay, and i end up getting worse marks than people who write it at the last minute.

I've tried asking actual tutors for my PSY subjects for assistance but i find they are quite limited in the amount of help they can give me as they are usually the ones marking.

I guess i'm looking for someone who will go over the draft copy of my essay with me, tell me whats wrong with it and how i can improve it so i can improve my marks.

So if theres anyone out there who has done/is doing a psy degree or something similar (any uni), has gotten good marks in their essays over the years and does private tutoring, please pm me with your details, times available and your rate per hour.

Thank you!

P.S For this semester i will only be needing help with PSY314 Child Psychology and most likely i will only need a few hours of tutoring

 

[mserica]

I would love a PSY234 Tutor..... so going to fail this unit.... everyone got HD and D's for the mid semester... ARGH

is anyone else doing this essay on Positive ILllusions


p.s sorry to put this in your thread!!

 

[Skittled]

I'm not on here much anymore, especially being rather caught up in honours, but I'd be happy to look over your essay. I've no experience in child psych, other than having a pet budgie named Piaget (she's... yes, we thought she was a he, originally... the blue one, attached, in case you're in need of a procrastination excuse), but could comment on style/referencing/logic, etc. I loved psy234, but did that three years ago now, so things have changed.

PM me when/if you're interested, when you're ready for it to be looked over.. Might take me a few days to get round to it (so please no "this is due tomorrow morning, Please read it Steve!" requests!) but would be happy to assuming I've got the time.

 

[AsyLum]

Steve I haz dis media essayz! can u readz?!

 

[Skittled]

Steve

,

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first person not good in essays

haz

...ard? ...ing? I'm lost in the 'haze' of potential suffixes for this.

dis

don't "diss"; criticise or critique.

media

BS

essayz!

singular or plural?

can u readz?!

requests should be enclosed in private communication, and subsequently appropriately referenced, rather than made in a public manner.

 

[AsyLum]

Hahahaha!

*claps* Good effort!

 

[xeuyrawp]

Hahah. Fucking awesome.

That's an A+ Rob post right there.

 

[Cyan_phoeniX]

I'm not on here much anymore, especially being rather caught up in honours, but I'd be happy to look over your essay. I've no experience in child psych, other than having a pet budgie named Piaget (she's... yes, we thought she was a he, originally... the blue one, attached, in case you're in need of a procrastination excuse), but could comment on style/referencing/logic, etc. I loved psy234, but did that three years ago now, so things have changed.

PM me when/if you're interested, when you're ready for it to be looked over.. Might take me a few days to get round to it (so please no "this is due tomorrow morning, Please read it Steve!" requests!) but would be happy to assuming I've got the time.

cool bird What's the white one called? (Surely not....Erickson? )

 

[Skittled]

hehe no; he's an albino (Well, kinda. There're varying grades of albinism apparently, so he's got really light blue under his wings and on his back) creatively named Blanc.

 

[mooshie]

Thanks Skittled, thats very kind of you. If i finish or have at least a rough copy by the weekend i'll send it to you.

Maybe you can help me with a question i have regarding referencing. I've read a large amount of material on my essay topic - do these go in my reference list? Say i read 7 articles that suggest physcial punishment leads to aggression, 5 articles that suggest it leads to antisocial behaviour and say 10 articles that suggest it leads to anxiety. Say i have a paragraph that starts like this 'Physical punishment has various negative effects including aggression (insert references) antisocial behaviour (insert references) and anxiety (insert references). Do you think its a good idea to put all of the references in or just choose ones that maybe prove other points that i talk about in my essay so i can reference them more than once. Does that even make sense?

Is there such thing as using too many references? How many references should the typical reference list have?

Also regarding quoting material directly from another article, how many times do you think it would be acceptable to directly quote in a 2000 word essay? I remember once a tutor said that you should only direcly quote once in an essay and that you should probably directly quote definitions. I'd rather not directly quote the definition of physical punishment but its so hard to do that - you have to make sure you don't change the meaning of it too much and also make sure you change it enough so you aren't plagiarising! help meeeeeee

 

[MaryJane]

I've read a large amount of material on my essay topic - do these go in my reference list?

I'm assuming when you say 'reference list' you're meaning a bibliography? If so, then you only ever put the articles you have actually cited in your work. Its not like high school when you could make your source list look absolutely massive by putting books you had read one sentence from (the good old days...)

Say i read 7 articles ... aggression, 5 articles ... antisocial behaviour and say 10 articles ... anxiety. ... 'Physical punishment has various negative effects including aggression (insert references) antisocial behaviour (insert references) and anxiety (insert references). Do you think its a good idea to put all of the references in... Does that even make sense?

yes, it makes sense You should never over-reference; only put in the article(s) that actually specifically make that link. With psych papers like this, they are generalist and well-researched enough to have thousands of articles supporting the essay question. You're assessed on how well you can disseminate and selectively choose only those that actually support your argument. So definitely limit them.

Is there such thing as using too many references? How many references should the typical reference list have?

Yes, there is such a thing as too many references. In a "(bloggs et al)" reference I would limit it to a max of 2. For your overall reference bibliography thing, lecturers have given numbers between 8 - 10 for an undergrad paper. Anymore and you've done extra, unnecessary research which shows that you aren't 'refined' enough. Too little and you haven't covered the topic to a sufficient depth.

Also regarding quoting material directly from another article, how many times do you think it would be acceptable to directly quote in a 2000 word essay? I remember once a tutor said that you should only direcly quote once in an essay and that you should probably directly quote definitions. I'd rather not directly quote the definition of physical punishment but its so hard to do that - you have to make sure you don't change the meaning of it too much and also make sure you change it enough so you aren't plagiarising! help meeeeeee

As you said, you don't want to get done for plagiarism. Either way, you'll have to reference your definition of physical punishment, so I'd advocate just biting the bullet and selecting a nice, succinct definition and quoting it. Don't be afraid to use "..." and "[xxx]" either. Generally, direct quotes are looked down upon in most disciplines. Basically, if you quote too much it seems like you haven't fully understood the concept/argument and you're just regurgitating. But definition are a different matter, especially when they're essential to your paper.

Steve (Skittled) is a fantastic editor (maybe I'm slightly biased and blinded by rose-coloured glasses), but don't be put off if your paper comes back with Word comments throughout it. He's very... thorough and honest.

Hope that helps

 

[mooshie]

Thanks MaryJane, that does help! I'll be PMing bits of my essay to Skittled tonight because i don't have his email, hopefully he'll have the time to go over it!

 

[mooshie]

Sorry kids, another quick question about APA format title page. I have the title of my essay at the top of the page, centered, bold with the big and important words capitalised. I've been looking through the Smyth guide and it says to have author's name, department and university too. Do i need that or is that what the cover sheet is for?

 

[MaryJane]

While that info is on the cover sheet, I've always put my name, dept and date on the title page, too. its just a bit of a formality I guess.

I do it:

Title
Name
Student number
Dept
Uni [obviously Macquarie Uni]
Date [Month, XXXX]

And make it so it all fits nicely on the page, space-wise. And centred.

 

[mooshie]

Thanks you!! I've always been uncertain about those silly title pages. Now all i have to worry about is making up the title for my title page