An Easyguide to Apa Style

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This clear and concise book is designed to demystify the process of writing in APA style and format.

With precise examples (both writing examples and Microsoft Word screenshots), An EasyGuide to APA Style 2e points out common APA style and formatting mistakes and how to avoid them. The book also provides an overview of the style and formatting changes for the 6th edition of the APA Publication Manual, providing detailed examples and complete sample student papers written to conform to APA format. The authors illustrate not only how to write using APA style, but also what writing in APA style really looks like when your paper is complete. Written in a conversational and clear style, this guide will help anyone find their way through the maze of rules in the APA Publication Manual and become proficient in learning the fine points of APA style.

The second edition of the EasyGuide contains additional writing tips and expanded discussions in each chapter. In particular, chapter 5 on plagiarism has been expanded to include more detail on topics like when and how to paraphrase appropriately and when to quote directly from a source. Also, the new edition provides examples from the latest version of Microsoft Word, Word 2010.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I. Overview
Ch1. Style Versus Format: Why It Matters to Your Audience and Why It Should Matter to You
Ch2. Your Visual Table of Contents QuickFinder
Section II. Writing With (APA) Style: Big-Picture Items
Ch3. Bare-Bones Fundamentals: General Writing Tips Specific to APA Style
Ch4. A Quick Grammer Summary for APA-Style Writing
Ch5. Thou Shalt Not Steal (or Be Lazy): Plagiarism and How to Avoid It
Ch6. Avoiding Biased Language
Section III. Writing With (APA) Style: Getting Down to Business
Ch7. Whodunit (or Said It)? Citing Sources in Text
Ch8. How, What, When, Who, and Where? A step-by-Step Playbook of Your Method
Ch9. How Did It All Turn Out? Writing About Statistics and Associated Fun
Ch10. Everybody Needs References
Section IV. Presenting Your Work In APA Format
Ch11. The Numbers Game: How to Write Numbers (and When the Rules Change)
Ch12. Formatting: Organizing, Headings, and Making Your Work Look Good to Print
Ch13. Table That Motion: The Special Challenges of Tables and Figures
Ch14. Make Microsoft Word 2010 Work for You: APA Formatting
Section V. Some Nitty-Gritty Details
Ch15. Making a List, No Apps Required: Enumeration and Seriation
Ch16. The Devil Is in the Details: Abbreviations, Signs, Symbols, and Punctuation
Section VI. In Closing: Important Considerations
Ch17. Using Rubrics: Knowing What It Means to Write a Good Paper
Ch18. Get It Right! Proofreading the Entire Paper
Ch19. Complete Sample of an Experimental (Research) Paper: Samples, Anyone?
Chapter 20. All Together Now: How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Beth M. Schwartz is the William E. and Catherine Ehrman Thoresen '23 Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean of the College at Randolph College, in Lynchburg, Virginia. She received a BA at Colby College (Maine) and a PhD in cognitive psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her scholarship focuses on two areas of interest: (a) children's memory development and how this applies to children's eyewitness reports and (b) the scholarship of teaching and learning/pedagogical research. In addition to numerous professional presentations at conferences, she has published many book chapters and articles in a variety of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Higher Education, Law and Human Behavior, and Applied Developmental Science. She has also edited and coauthored books, including Child Abuse: A Global View (Schwartz, McCauley, & Epstein, 2001), Optimizing Teaching and Learning (Gurung & Schwartz, 2009), and Evidence-Based Teaching for Higher Education (Schwartz & Gurung, 2012). She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Society and is a Fellow of Division 2 of APA (Society for the Teaching of Psychology). She is an award-winning teacher at Randolph College, where she teaches Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, Cognitive Psychology, and the capstone course. She received the Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring from the American Psych-Law Society, the Gillie A. Larew Award for Distinguished Teaching at Randolph College, and the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Certificate from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.