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Concise Rules Of APA Style (Concise Rules of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style)

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Concise Rules Of APA Style (Concise Rules of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style)

By: American Psychological Association  

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The Concise Rules of APA Style offers essential writing and formatting standards for students, teachers, researchers, and clinicians in the social and behavioral sciences. This easy-to-use pocket guide, compiled from 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.

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. It provides guidance on designing research, identifying the parts of a scholarly article, understanding the process of journal publication, and submitting articles for 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.

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, capitalization, abbreviation, italicization, headings, and quotations; examines the preferred use of numbers as well as standards for metrication and statistics; provides guidance for the construction and formatting of tables, figures, and appendixes; and offers clear examples and models for referencing ideas 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.

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Exactly what was needed for the college class ... - This book arrived as stated and packed even better than most other books ordered online. Exactly what was needed for the college class, and cost so much less that the bookstore. Very satisfied with my order.

Customer Review: 4 out of 5
what about errors in the 6th edition? - Does this condensed version have errors in its first printing as the full edition does? Does anyone know?

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Small Spiral Version - I bought the spiral book version. It is small enough to put in your laptop case. It does the job.

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More manageable - Concise rules of APA style is more manageable in a physical sense, than the entire APA Publication Manual. It is also probably just as useful for most people, as the bigger more expensive Publication Manual. Speedy service from Amazon and good value - for all the Australian online shoppers out there.

Customer Review: 2 out of 5
not very good for this type of reference - this will be brief, but I have had writing reference books much better than this one. The one major flaw other than the poor set up was that it is not tabbed for easy look up. you have to go to the table of contents, which is poorly organized for anything.

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