A Pocket Style Manual, APA Version 7th by Diana Hacker
ISBN 9781319011130
A Pocket Style Manual, APA Version, is a quick reference for
writers and researchers who use the style guidelines of the
American Psychological Association (APA). As a researcher,
you can turn to it for details about finding, evaluating, and
documenting sources and about writing papers in APA style.
As a writer, you will find advice on revising sentences for
clarity, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Here are the book’s key features.
• The brief and detailed contents inside the front and
back covers allow you to quickly spot the help you need.
• The index at the back of the book includes user-friendly
terms like “I vs. me” to point to common problems like
pronoun case.
• Charts and checklists throughout the book and at the
end of the book provide quick advice on revising a draft
or preparing for a writing center visit.
• Writing and formatting APA-style papers is covered
in sections 1–12, which provide advice about using APA
conventions, supporting a thesis, avoiding plagiarism,
and integrating sources when you write papers in APA
style. The handbook includes sample pages from 11
types of student papers. Annotations on the sample
pages point out appropriate writing as well as correct
formatting of the parts of an APA-style paper.
• Documenting sources in APA style is covered in sections
13–15, which provide models for APA-style in-text
citations and reference list entries. Directories to documentation
models are on pages 104 and 111–12 and in
the back of the book.
• The glossaries in the Appendices offer useful definitions
and help with commonly confused or misused
words such as affect/effect.
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