Concise Guide to APA Style

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High school and undergraduate students, instructors, and writers can master APA Style essentials for scholarly writing with clear guidance on formatting, grammar, and citations. Updated examples and sample pages offer practical insights for crafting effective, bias?free academic assignments.

Written for high school and undergraduate students, instructors, and writers learning APA Style, this easy-to-use pocket guide is adapted from the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. It provides complete guidance for new writers on effective, clear, and inclusive scholarly communication and the essentials of formatting papers and other course assignments.

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• Content relevant to a range of majors and courses, including psychology, social work, criminal justice, communications, composition, education, business, engineering, and more
• New chapter focused on student papers
• Sample student title page, paper, and annotated bibliography
• Streamlined APA Style headings and in-text citations
• New chapter on writing style and grammar
• Chapters on punctuation, lists, italics, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, numbers, and statistics
• Latest bias-free language guidelines
• More than 2 new sample tables and figures
• Comprehensive guidelines on citation to help writers credit their sources appropriately and avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism
• More than new reference templates and examples, including traditional sources (e.g., journal articles, books, dissertations, and reports) plus many others (e.g., social media, webpages and websites, legal)