Full Description
The APA version of this trusted manual provides help for students writing in disciplines that use APA style: psychology, sociology, economics, criminal justice, nursing, education, business, and others. With a focus on APA conventions and practices, examples and models from across the disciplines, and guidelines for integrating and documenting a wide variety of sources, this text gives concise, straightforward, and trusted advice for any writing situation.
Contents
1 Writing college papers in APA style.- 2 Understanding APA conventions.- 3 Posing questions to start a paper.- 4 Finding appropriate sources.- 5 Evaluating sources.- 6 Managing information; avoiding plagiarism.- 7 Supporting a thesis.- 8 Avoiding plagiarism.- 9 Integrating sources.- 10 Parts of a paper in APA style.- 11 APA paper format.- 12 Sample pages from papers in APA style.- 13 APA in-text citations.- 14 APA list of references.- 15 APA notes.- 16 Wordy sentences.- 17 Active verbs.- 18 Parallelism.- 19 Needed words.- 20 Shifts.- 21 Mixed constructions.- 22 Misplaced and dangling modifiers.- 23 Sentence variety.- 24 Appropriate voice.- 25 Subject-verb agreement.- 26 Other problems with verbs.- 27 Pronouns (agreement, reference, case).- 28 Adjectives and adverbs.- 29 Sentence fragments.- 30 Run-on sentences.- 31 Grammar for multilingual writers.- 32 The comma.- 33 The semicolon and the colon.- 34 The apostrophe.- 35 Quotation marks.- 36 Other marks.- 37 Capitalization.- 38 Abbreviations.- 39 Numbers.- 40 Italics.- 41 Spelling.- 42 Hyphenation.- Appendices.
