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| Author: American Psychological Association
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
Buy New: $22.92
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Rating:  267 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 439
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1557987912
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06615
EAN: 9781557987914
Publication Date: July 2001
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| Customer Reviews:
 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association March 19, 2002
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
We were mandated to buy this book for use when writing papers for our master's program. I have found it extremely poorly organized. Some items I can't find at all. For instance, I wanted to find out how to format an interview. Can't find it anywhere in this book. Our instructor told us to annotate our bibliographies. I cannot find anything in this book on annotated bibliographies. So far this book has been literally useless to me as a resource. It is very hard to locate any example of what your reference should look like, it is far too complex for simple college paper writing and is missing items (listed above). I haven't used it yet.
 Here we go again... January 10, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Only a few minor adjustments from previous editions make a new edition seem almost redundant. However, the hanging indent is back, and the information on referencing electronic media has been updated to reflect greater use of the internet in research. Overall, a useful resource.
Well, unless you must have this text, get another source... November 16, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'll admit, as an English/Spanish minor, I favor MLA style, but this text is unfriendly at best.
Pros: It the official APA style guide... it is the 'bible' for APA. Low price.
Cons: Well, its long, hard to read, and its harder to find what you're looking for.
Its full of information you probably won't use, but there's so much information, its pretty difficult to find exactly what you're looking for.
It is true that most 'style guide' handbooks that you'll find at a book store will be more expensive than this. However, you'll be glad you shelled out the extra dollars for another reference... ( The tabbed reference books tend to have the wire or plastic ring binders. They usually are required for College English I and II, and they usually contain tabs for the different styles, APA, MLA etc... A writer's reference by Diana Hacker and others are good).
The tabbed reference texts tend to be easy to read, and have the examples you're looking for.
Its good to have if you're an editor or if its a requirement, but if not, get another source!
 Get another book! December 9, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
The book is very poorly layed out. It was hard to search for topics in the index and find it in the book. This book did not help me one bit in writing APA style papers. I would recommend a different book and an APA computer program, which really helps to guide you through formatting the paper from title page to reference page.
let me put it this way... May 15, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
As a graduate student in psychology, I own the book (we have to). I rarely take the thing off the shelf, and that's only to check some minor point of order that few would notice anyway. The better way to learn APA style is to read journal articles. I also don't understand what the style manual has against page numbers. It makes the book impossible to follow and if I need to refer a colleague to something in the book, hard to communicate exactly where they might find what they need. This is a problem because the people who would use this most are undergraduates who are just beginning to learn the style. The manual does get some credit for realizing this and putting in a section on basics such as punctuation. Sad as it may sound, many college students have no understanding of what exactly a comma is supposed to do.
APA style itself is an acquired taste and it will have its supporters and detractors. (I personally rather like it.) Sadly, this is the "definitive" guide to that style. Here's to hoping that the sixth edition is better.
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