Writing Help
If you need help writing your best resource is the Wolak Learning Center This link opens in a new window (Campus Students) or the Academic Support Center This link opens in a new window (Online Students). However, the library has a number of resources that can help and librarians can lead you to web resources that may also be useful. The following are some recommended books and web resources to help you write.
Concise Guide to APA Style by Call Number: REF BF76.7 .C66 2020ISBN: 9781433832734Publication Date: 2019-12-01
Qualitative Research by Call Number: Available Online (Click Title)ISBN: 9781473925212Publication Date: 2017-08-08
The Psychology Research Handbook by Call Number: Available Online (Click Title)ISBN: 9780761930228Publication Date: 2005-09-08
Frequently Asked Writing Questions
Research Poster Help
Some SNHU courses require students to create a research poster. SCS 224 students who present at Undergraduate Research Day may choose to do an oral presentation or a poster presentation. Below are resources to help you create a research poster for class or conference presentations.
Research Poster guidelines:
If you decide to present a research poster for Undergraduate Research Day, the following are usually suggested to include:
- A title box towards the top of the poster, including the names of the authors and university affiliation (SNHU)
- An introduction section highlighting the problem addressed a brief literature review with citations and your hypothesis or hypotheses.
- A method section describing your participants, any materials used, and what you did during the experiment (procedures).
- A results section and, if applicable, associated tables or graphs. These panels provide your statistics relevant to the hypothesis examined. At a minimum, provide descriptive statistics. Inferential statistics are not required but your conclusions would benefit.
- A discussion where you relate your findings to that of other studies and draw your conclusions in light of your hypothesis.
- A references section. Make sure your references include peer-reviewed sources and primary research articles. Primary articles describe studies in which the authors collected the data themselves. References must be in APA format. If you cannot fit your references onto your poster, you may provide the references separately as an attached word document.
Poster templates
- Poster Template for a Correlation, Experiment, or Quasi-Experiment This link opens in a new windowThis research poster template for a SNHU research poster was created by PosterPresentations.com. They also have great suggestions for crafting a research poster on their website. SNHU students participating in Undergraduate Research Day may submit to this link to have posters printed for free at the Shapiro Library Makerspace: http://bit.ly/SNHUposter
- SNHU Poster Design GuideThis poster design guide includes information about finding free images, and size required for posters; templates for posters; SNHU logos; the link to request a poster be printed @ the Library Makerspace; and other information to create a high quality research poster.
- Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) APA Classroom Poster This link opens in a new windowImages of sample classroom research posters in APA format available on this page.
Presentation Help
If you need help preparing a presentation your best resource is the Wolak Learning Center This link opens in a new window (Campus Students) or the Academic Support Center This link opens in a new window (Online Students). However, the library has a number of resources that can help and librarians can lead you to web resources that may also be useful. The following are some recommended books and web resources to help you prepare a presentation. Resources with a star are highly recommended.
A Student's Guide to Presentations by Call Number: Available Online (Click Title)ISBN: 9780761943693Publication Date: 2007-10-15
Better Presentations by Call Number: Available Online (Click Title)ISBN: 9780231542791Publication Date: 2016-12-19
