Biographical Sketch focusing on their education and professional experience. Where were they trained? Who do they work with? What professional roles have they held? Any leadership experience through professional organizations or psychology journals? Have they received any grants? etc
Contribution to the field of SP – where has this person made their mark? how much has the individual influences practice? Does the person have any practical experience, what impact have they had on the actual field of SP? how much has the individual influenced research? What are the themes of their research, where do they publish? Who do they publish with? How has this changed over their career?
Be sure to balance the factual information in this paper with your thoughts, observations etc on their professional accomplishments. Be sure to integrate this with information covered in class so far and demonstrate that you are truly considering the information and not just piecing together a laundry list.
Format
• 4-5 pages
Double spaced
• Times New Roman 12 pt font
• Page #s
• Separate page for references (websites, articles), if applicable
• 1 inch margins
• Separate title page
• Make sure your paper is well organized, there can be two main sections or you can weave the biographical/contributions parts together
How to get information:
• search APA PsycInfo for record of publications and maybe even read a few of their articles
• locate or reconstruct their curriculum vitae (academic resume) – Google it!
• use internet to see about other professional activities
• looking in traditional books for this is probably not appropriate…
