Instructions: Title: This should be informative without being lengthy – it needs to attract the audience so try to make your research sound enticing. You should also include the university name and your student ID number on the title page. Please also state if you are a January start or Criminology with Psychology Student.

Introduction: You should focus on identifying the key points only. Write in short, uncomplicated, informative, paragraphs. The introduction should provide a clear rationale for the current research. End the introduction with a statement of the aims and hypotheses to be tested.

Method: use clear sub-headings; include information about the design, the participants, the materials/equipment and the procedure. It is particularly important that you do not include irrelevant detail and it is acceptable to write in bullet points rather than long prose.

Results: It is essential to provide a clear table of means or a graph. Include information about the statistical tests that were performed, the significance of any differences between groups or conditions and direction of any effects relevant to the hypotheses or research questions.

Discussion: State what the results mean and relate them to theory and previous research described in the introduction. However, you again do not go into the detail that you would in a lab report – use short, clear paragraphs.