Download PDF Mastering APA Style Student Workbook and Training Guide American Psychological Association Books
Download As PDF : Mastering APA Style Student Workbook and Training Guide American Psychological Association Books
This user-friendly training guide includes groups of instructional exercises and practice tests on various aspects and features of the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, including electronic references and citations, grammar, headings, seriation, statistical and mathematical copy, italics and capitalization, numbers style, and table formatting. The exercises and tests require students to apply APA Style to prove that they can use it accurately in term papers and research reports. This workbook is a self-pacing, self-teaching workbook that can be used to learn APA Style quickly and effectively. Intended for students of psychology or related disciplines as well as other professions that use APA Style, Mastering APA Style Student's Workbook and Training Guide is an effective learning tool for the classroom or independent study.
Download PDF Mastering APA Style Student Workbook and Training Guide American Psychological Association Books
"I don't really love this book because it's a school book but as far as APA handbooks go, this is an all-encompassing guide and includes lots of practice exercises."
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Mastering APA Style Student Workbook and Training Guide American Psychological Association Books Reviews :
Mastering APA Style Student Workbook and Training Guide American Psychological Association Books Reviews
- I have a Masters Degree in Psychology and am currently a Doctoral Candidate in Special Education, so the fact that all my papers are required to be in APA format is not a problem to me. I was required, however, to purchase this book for my next course, and I must say that it is a perfect adjunct to the APA Manual. Every so often, I will forget a piece of necessary information that might seem insignificant, but is of importance. In this book, I can easily look up the particular item that I've forgotten/blanked on momentarily, or on which I just want to refresh my understanding, and find what I want in the Table of Contents. There is, unfortunately, no index so one must find the topic in the Contents section. I am not too thrilled about that but for the fact that the Contents section is fairly detailed. What I really like about this book, however, is that it gives examples of correct and incorrect usages, and the information that is being corrected is highlighted in gray. The book gives two sets of examples on one sentence, or form; one is called the draft version which is always the incorrect form, and the other is called the feedback version which is the corrected form. This goes into everything from correct comma usage to not showing bias in writing, so there are many important subjects that are covered. There are also tests which give not only the answer key, but also the exact APA code that governs the correct answer. This is especially helpful. The only thing I find confusing is a personal matter, and that is that I teach high school students who have learning disabilities and I teach them MLA formatting. The two styles do differ, and I tend, on occasion, to make the error of using MLA when I need to use APA in my own reports. Nothing huge such as formatting the References section wrong, but the occasional difference of whether to use Italics or quotation marks--well I guess that could be a big error. This workbook will, I believe, cement the APA format firmly into my mind. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who must employ proper APA styling. BTW, I bought the spiral bound version, a bit worried about the quality of the paper and whether it would easily tear, but my fears are unfounded. The paper is of good enough quality that I don't believe this will be a problem. I do wish it came in a hard cover version, always my first choice in a book to which I may be referring in the future.
- I just want to let everyone who is new to the whole APA style know that this is not the book I would recommend. It is hard to read and understand, and the layout doesn't help because there are no colors and nothing pops out or is distinguishable from everything else. It would have been better if they made the examples stand out more where it is was either correct or incorrect, but they all looked the same and I think they could have done a better job. It is definitely for those who are already familiar with APA too.
- I had just started to an online college that requires APA Style, and I had never written anything in APA before. Even with all of the online help, I prefer the written book. It has helped me to understand APA very well. It goes along with the APA manual, and I could not live without it. I would suggest anyone who has to write papers in the APA style to purchase the manual and the workbook. They are an invaluable tool for college.
- I thought this would be greater depth for APA citation, and confusion over color for instructor manual vs students, I did not find the product what I expected. OK if you do not already have the blue 6th Ed.
- I don't really love this book because it's a school book but as far as APA handbooks go, this is an all-encompassing guide and includes lots of practice exercises.
- This is a great book to test yourself on APA guidelines. It has two practice tests for each section and plenty of examples for you to learn from. The format is set up nicely so you can compare and contrast your answers to the correct ones quickly and sufficiently.
- I should have paid attention to the other reviews, but I was hoping that maybe this would give me the examples I was looking for. Nope, I was wrong. It is about as scarce with additional information about APA style as other reviewers suggested. It is literally a book on how to go through the APA manual, not necessarily finer points about APA style. For me, it was not more helpful. It has just proven to be more paper to put on a shelf.
In its defense, I may not have spent the amount of time looking through the book that I should have to find it useful. - Requried for class, but what I found is this book is a workbook to learn APA. One side is the wrong format for you to correct. The other side is the correct answers. It is a very easy learning tool for anyone needing help learning APA!
