This workbook, updated for use with the fifth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, is the source students need to improve their writing skills. Mastering APA Style is a self-pacing, self-teaching workbook that can be used to learn APA style quickly and effectively. Developed over more than a decade, this workbook has been tested where it counts--in the classroom! Mastering APA Style: Student's Workbook and Training Guide contains groups of instructional exercises on various aspects and features of the Publication Manual, including references and citations, grammar, headings, serialization, statistical and mathematical copy, italics and capitalization, numbers style, and table formatting. This workbook is an effective learning module for the classroom or independent study.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Not Needed:
The APA Manual provides all that you need - don't bother with this unless you have never written a paper before in your life.
Waste of time.:
I do not recommend this book unless you have no clue about APA. If, you are somewhat familiar with using APA style in your research papers, do not bother to purchase it. You can glean the same information from the actual 5th ed. of the APA manual. Check with your reference librarian at you college or university. They may be able to provide you with handouts that may actually be more useful. Therefore, I did not find this book user friendly.
For writers its a must:
Needed this book for English class I was taking and it was a required book for most of my classes. Has a lot of information in it.
A Style Manual lacking, uh, Style:
I have to admit, the book lost me on page one with the sickening "According to Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, style is " a convention with respect..." blah blah. Is that the best of your collective efforts? So, with that grabber of an opener, the reader is treated to an oddly reverent discussion on APA style. As the other reviewers stated, it isn't a reference in any form. I suppose, if one were really, really committed to the APA style they could wade through this book and learn the in's and... more info
