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APA Made Easy | 3rd Edition | Updated and Expanded15 Minutes.That's as long as we think any student should have to spend formatting their papers. Unfortunately, students often spend hours trying to find answers from hard to follow manuals or confusing websites. Whether you want a step-by-step APA guide for building a title page, suggestions for writing with greater clarity, or freedom from doing endless internet searches every time you have a question about APA standards, APA Made Easy is the only blueprint that you will need for writing in APA style. This comprehensive writing guide includes illustrated steps for formatting an APA document in: * Microsoft Word 2010* Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac* Microsoft Word 2013 * Apple's PagesThis simple APA guide features:* Numerous APA style examples and high resolution screen shots to help students correctly format documents within 15 minutes.* Over 150 completed Reference examples.* Over 60 completed In-Text Citation examples.* How to use various headings effectively in your writing.* Specific examples that cover how to cite new media such as blog posts, emails, websites, online lectures, computer programs, social media and much more.* A new section on using and citing DOI's (Digital Object Identifiers) for new media.* Clickable Table of Contents for ease of use.* A short sample paper in APA format.* For more information on APA Made Easy and downloadable APA templates visit: YouVersusTheWorld.com.You will also become a more effective and efficient writer by learning:* How to outline information you've already gathered.* How to write an essay or research paper from an outline.* How to write a solid introduction* How to use the required headings in a research paper including Abstracts, Method, Subjects and Participants, Materials or Apparatus, Results, and Discussion sections.* Building citations within your paper and on your Reference page.**All information in this book conforms to the APA Publication Manual 6th edition.

This is a compact but comprehensive guide to writing clearly and effectively in APA style. Demonstrates how to write objective scientific research papers using interesting prose Incorporates guidelines from the 6th edition of the APA publication manual Explores how to develop ideas, connect them to what others have written, and express them clearly Discusses the differences between written, oral, and poster presentations and offers instructions for applying APA style to each

Part 1 | A Process for Writing 1 Exploring, planning, and drafting 2 Building effective paragraphs 3 Revising, editing, and proofreading Part 2 | Academic Reading and Writing 4 Reading critically; writing analytically 5 Reading arguments 6 Writing arguments 7 Writing in the disciplines Part 3 | Clear Sentences 8 Active verbs 9 Parallelism 10 Needed words 11 Mixed constructions 12 Misplaced and dangling modifiers 13 Shifts 14 Emphasis 15 Variety Part 4 | Word Choice 16 Wordy sentences 17 Appropriate language 18 Exact words 19 Glossary of usage Part 5 | Grammatical Sentences 20 Sentence fragments 21 Run-on sentences 22 Subject-verb agreement 23 Pronoun-antecedent agreement 24 Pronoun reference 25 Pronoun case (I vs. me) 26 who vs. whom 27 Adjectives and adverbs 28 Standard English verb forms 29 Multilingual topics Part 6 | Punctuation 30 The comma 31 Unnecessary commas 32 The semicolon and the colon 33 The apostrophe 34 Quotation marks 35 End punctuation 36 Other punctuation marks Part 7 | Mechanics 37 Abbreviations, numbers, and italics 38 Spelling and the hyphen 39 Capitalization Part 8 | Grammar Basics 40 Parts of speech 41 Sentence patterns 42 Subordinate word groups 43 Sentence types Part 9 | Researched Writing 44 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources 45 Managing information; taking notes responsibly 46 Evaluating sources 47 Writing a research paper 48 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism 49 Integrating sources 50 Documenting sources in MLA style 51 MLA format; sample research paper 52 Documenting sources in APA style 53 APA format; sample research paper Answers to Exercises | Index | List of Grammatical Terms

The Concise Rules of APA Style, Sixth Edition offers essential writing and formatting standards for students, teachers, researchers, and clinicians in the social and behavioural sciences. This easy-to-use pocket guide, compiled from the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, provides complete guidance on the rules of style that are critical for clear communication. Readers will learn how to avoid the grammatical errors most commonly reported by journal editors; how to choose the appropriate format for statistics, figures, and tables; how to credit sources and avoid charges of plagiarism; and how to construct a reference list through a wide variety of examples and sources. In addition to guidance on grammar points that have challenged writers in the social sciences, the Concise Rules provides suggestions for reducing bias in language; reviews the mechanics of style for punctuation, spelling, capitalisation, abbreviation, italicisation, headings and quotations; examines the preferred use of numbers as well as standards for metrication and statistics; provides guidance on the construction and formatting of tables, figures and appendixes; and offers clear examples and models for citing sources and constructing error-free reference lists. Available in a light-weight, spiral-bound format, the Concise Rules will travel easily from home to school to office. It will be an invaluable reference tool for all social science scholars who are serious about communicating clearly and effectively. Key to this edition is an updated and expanded APA Style website, with many additional resources to help readers learn APA style, including free tutorials, on-line courses, frequently asked questions, sample papers, and the APA Style blog. The sixth edition of Concise Rules has been revised and updated to include simplified APA heading style to make it more conducive to electronic publication; updated guidelines for reducing bias in language to reflect current practices and preferences, including a new section on presenting historical language that is inappropriate by present standards; new guidelines for reporting inferential statistics and a significantly revised table of statistical abbreviations; a new discussion on the use of online supplemental materials, including lengthy data sets and other media, to enrich the published article; significantly expanded content on the electronic presentation of data to help readers understand the purpose of each kind of display and choose the best match for communicating the results of the investigation, with new examples for a variety of data displays, including electrophysiological and biological data; an expanded discussion of electronic sources, emphasizing the role of the digital object identifier (DOI) as a reliable way to locate information; and a wealth of new reference examples, with a focus on new electronic formats. New and experienced readers alike will find the sixth edition a complete resource for writing with clarity and precision.How does the Concise Rules differ from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association? The Publication Manual remains the best source for broad background information about scientific publishing. In addition to writing style rules, it provides detailed guidance on publication ethics, journal article reporting standards, and the process of journal publication. The Concise Rules, by comparison, targets only those rules writers need for choosing the best words and format for their articles. It offers a comprehensive list of essential writing standards in a convenient, easily retrievable format.

Writing Papers in APA Style 1. Writing college papers in APA style 1a. Research paper: Literature review 1b. Research paper: Original empirical research 1c. Laboratory report 1d. Analytical essay 1e. Annotated bibliography 1f. Administrative report 1g. Case study 1h. Clinical paper 1i. Professional memo 1j. Reflective essay 1k. Social issue paper 2. Understanding APA conventions 2a. Privileging current sources 2b. Using appropriate tone and language 2c. Avoiding stereotypes, bias, and offensive language 2d. Understanding intellectual property 2e. Collecting and reporting data 2f. Protecting research participants 3. Posing questions to start a paper 3a. Choosing a narrow question 3b. Choosing a challenging question 3c. Choosing a grounded question 4. Finding appropriate sources 4a. Locating reference works 4b. Locating articles 4c. Locating books 4d. Locating other sources online 5. Evaluating sources 5a. Selecting sources 5b. Reading with an open mind and a critical eye 5c. Assessing Web sources with special care 6. Managing information; avoiding plagiarism 6a. Maintaining a working bibliography 6b. Keeping track of source materials 6c. Avoiding unintentional plagiarism as you take notes 7. Supporting a thesis 7a. Forming a working thesis 7b. Testing your thesis 7c. Organizing your ideas 7d. Using sources to inform and support your argument 8. Avoiding plagiarism 8a. Citing quotations and borrowed ideas 8b. Enclosing borrowed language in quotation marks 8c. Putting summaries and paraphrases in your own words 8d. Avoiding self-plagiarism 9. Integrating sources 9a. Using quotations appropriately 9b. Using signal phrases to integrate sources 9c. Synthesizing sources Formatting Papers in APA Style 10. Parts of a paper in APA style 10a. Title page 10b. Abstract 10c. Introduction 10d. Method 10e. Results 10f. Discussion 10g. References 10h. Footnotes 10i. Headings 10j. Appendices 10k. Visuals 11. APA paper format 11a. Formatting the paper 11b. Preparing the list of references 12. Sample pages from papers in APA style 12a. Research paper: Literature review (education) 12b. Research paper: Empirical research (psychology) 12c. Analytical essay (sociology) 12d. Annotated bibliography (economics) 12e. Laboratory report (psychology) 12f. Administrative report (criminology/criminal justice) 12g. Clinical practice paper (nursing) 12h. Reflective essay (education) 12i. Business report 12j. Professional memo (business) 12k. Social issue paper (composition) Documenting Sources in APA Style 13. APA in-text citations 14. APA list of references 14a. General guidelines for listing authors 14b. Articles and other short works 14c. Books and other long works 14d. Web sites and parts of Web sites 14e. Audio, visual, and multimedia sources 14f. Personal communication and social media 15. APA notes 15a. Footnotes in the text 15b. Notes in tables and figures Clarity 16. Tighten wordy sentences. 16a. Redundancies 16b. Empty or inflated phrases 16c. Needlessly complex structures 17. Prefer active verbs. 17a. When to replace be verbs 17b. When to replace passive verbs 18. Balance parallel ideas. 18a. Items in a series 18b. Paired ideas 19. Add needed words. 19a. Words in compound structures 19b. The word that 19c. Words in comparisons 20. Eliminate confusing shifts. 20a. Shifts in point of view 20b. Shifts in tense 21. Untangle mixed constructions. 21a. Mixed grammar 21b. Illogical connections 21c. Is when, is where, and reason . . . is because constructions 22. Repair misplaced and dangling modifiers. 22a. Misplaced words 22b. Misplaced phrases and clauses 22c. Dangling modifiers 22d. Split infinitives 23. Provide sentence variety.  23a. Combining choppy sentences  23b. Varying sentence openings 24. Find an appropriate voice.  24a. Jargon  24b. Clichés  24c. Slang  24d. Sexist language Grammar 25. Make subjects and verbs agree. 25a. Words between subject and verb 25b. Subjects joined with and 25c. Subjects joined with or or nor 25d. Indefinite pronouns such as someone 25e. Collective nouns such as jury 25f. Subject after verb 25g. Who, which, and that 25h. Plural form, singular meaning 25i. Titles, company names, and words mentioned as words 26. Be alert to other problems with verbs. 26a. Irregular verbs 26b. Tense 26c. Mood 27. Use pronouns with care. 27a. Pronoun-antecedent agreement 27b. Pronoun reference 27c. Case of personal pronouns (I vs. me etc.) 27d. Who vs. whom 28. Use adjectives and adverbs appropriately. 28a. Adjectives 28b. Adverbs 28c. Comparatives and superlatives 29. Repair sentence fragments. 29a. Fragmented clauses 29b. Fragmented phrases 29c. Acceptable fragments 30. Revise run-on sentences. 30a. Revision with a comma and a coordinating conjunction 30b. Revision with a semicolon (or a colon or a dash) 30c. Revision by separating sentences 30d. Revision by restructuring the sentence 31. Consider grammar topics for multilingual writers. 31a. Verbs 31b. Articles (a, an, the) 31c. Sentence structure 31d. Prepositions showing time and place Punctuation 32. The comma 32a. Before a coordinating conjunction joining independent clauses 32b. After an introductory word group 32c. Between items in a series 32d. Between coordinate adjectives 32e. To set off a nonrestrictive element, but not a restrictive element 32f. To set off transitional and parenthetical expressions, absolute phrases, and contrasted elements 32g. To set off nouns of direct address, the words yes and no, interrogative tags, and mild interjections 32h. To set off direct quotations introduced with expression such as he argued 32i. With dates, addresses, and titles 32j. Misuses of the comma 33. The semicolon and the colon 33a. The semicolon 33b. The colon 34. The apostrophe 34a. To indicate possession 34b. To mark contractions 34c. Conventional uses 34d. Misuses of the apostrophe 35. Quotation marks 35a. To enclose direct quotations 35b. Around titles of short works 35c. Other punctuation with quotation marks 35d. Misuses of quotation marks 36. Other marks 36a. The period 36b. The question mark 36c. The exclamation point 36d. The dash 36e. Parentheses 36f. Brackets 36g. The ellipsis mark 36h. The slash Mechanics 37. Capitalization 37a. Proper vs. common nouns 37b. Titles with proper names 37c. Titles of works 37d. Special terms 37e. First word of a sentence or quoted sentence 37f. First word following a colon 37g. Abbreviations 38. Abbreviations 38a. Before and after a name 38b. Organizations, companies, countries 38c. Units of measurement and time 38d. Latin abbreviations 38e. Plural of abbreviations 38f. Other uses of abbreviations 38g. Inappropriate abbreviations 39. Numbers 39a. Using numerals 39b. Using words for numbers 40. Italics 40a. Titles of works 40b. Words as words and other uses 40c. Ships, aircraft, spacecraft 40d. Foreign words 41. Spelling 41a. Major spelling rules 41b. Spelling variations 42. Hyphenation 42a. Compound words 42b. Words functioning together as an adjective 42c. Suffixes and prefixes 42d. Hyphenation at ends of lines Glossaries Glossary of usage Glossary of grammatical terms Index Documentation directories Charts and lists for quick reference List of sample pages from student papers Revision symbols

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioural sciences. It provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language. Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system, the Publication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, and tone that will result in strong, simple, and elegant scientific communication. The sixth edition offers new and expanded instruction on publication ethics, statistics, journal article reporting standards, electronic reference formats, and the construction of tables and figures. The sixth edition has been revised and updated to include: new ethics guidance on such topics as determining authorship and terms of collaboration, duplicate publication, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, disguising of participants, validity of instrumentation, and making data available to others for verification; new journal article reporting standards to help readers report empirical research with clarity and precision; simplified APA heading style to make it more conducive to electronic publication; updated guidelines for reducing bias in language to reflect current practices and preferences, including a new section on presenting historical language that is inappropriate by present standards; new guidelines for reporting inferential statistics and a significantly revised table of statistical abbreviations; and, new instruction on using supplemental files containing lengthy data sets and other media. This book includes significantly expanded content on the electronic presentation of data to help readers understand the purpose of each kind of display and choose the best match for communicating the results of the investigation, with new examples for a variety of data displays, including electro physiological and biological data. It offers consolidated information on all aspects of reference citations, with an expanded discussion of electronic sources emphasising the role of the digital object identifier (DOI) as a reliable way to locate information. It features expanded discussion of the publication process, including the function and process of peer review. It contains a discussion of ethical, legal, and policy requirements in publication; and guidelines on working with the publisher while the article is in press. Key to this edition of the Publication Manual is an updated and expanded Web presence. Look up additional supplemental material keyed to this book. This book lets you test your knowledge of APA Style with a free tutorial on style basics. It lets you learn about the changes in the sixth edition with a free tutorial reviewing key revisions. Sign up for an on-line course to enrich and enhance your understanding of APA Style. Read the APA Style blog and share your comments on writing and referencing. Consult frequently asked questions to sharpen your understanding of APA Style. This title lets you examine additional resources on such topics as ethics, statistics, and writing. It lets you familiarise yourself with submission standards for APA books and journals.