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| Preface | |
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| Our Reader-Friendly Approach | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Overview | |
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| Style Versus Format: Why It Matters to Your Audience and Why It Should Matter to You | |
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| What Is the Difference Between APA Style and APA Format? | |
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| Why APA Style Anyway? Wasn't MLA Good Enough? | |
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| In the Long Run, Attention to Detail Matters (Including APA Style and Format) | |
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| Write for Your Specific Audience: Term Papers Versus Formal Research Papers | |
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| Your Visual Table of Contents QuickFinder | |
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| The Sample Paper With Content and Page Numbers | |
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| Writing with (APA) Style: Big Picture Items | |
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| Bare-Bones Fundamentals: General Writing Tips Specific to APA Style | |
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| Clear and Succinct Writing | |
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| Commonly Confused Words in Psychology | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Active Voice Versus Passive Voice in APA Style | |
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| A Quick Grammar Summary for APA-Style Writing | |
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| Parts of a Sentence | |
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| Parts of Speech | |
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| Common Grammar Mistakes to Avoid | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Steal (or Be Lazy): Plagiarism and How to Avoid It | |
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| But I Didn't Know … | |
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| It Sounds Like a Bad Word | |
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| Quoting: More Than Just a Copy and Paste | |
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| Paraphrasing: In Your Own Words | |
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| An Author's License (Yours): Modifying Source Material | |
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| But I Can Freely Use My Own Work, Right? | |
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| How About This for a Plagiarism Awareness Exercise? | |
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| Avoiding Biased Language | |
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| The Fundamental Lesson: View People as Individuals First | |
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| Specifie Recommendations for Reducing Bias: Nonsexist Language and Other Areas | |
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| Sexual Orientation | |
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| Racial and Ethnic Identity | |
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| Disabilities | |
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| Occupations | |
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| Gender and Pronouns: With an Indefinite Recommendation | |
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| Writing with (APA) Style: Getting Down to Business | |
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| Whodunnit (or Said It)? Citing References in Text | |
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| A Good Rule of Thumb | |
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| Ready, Cite, GO | |
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| In-Text Citation Basics | |
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| A Variation on the Theme | |
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| What Do I Do When I Need to Cite More Than One Article in the Same Spot? | |
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| What If I Have Two or More Articles by the same Author and Some Are the Same Year? | |
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| What If I Have Two or More Articles by Authors With the Same Last Name? | |
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| How Do I Cite an Article or Document From a Website? | |
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| If I Refer to the Same Article More Than Once in the Same Paragraph Do I Cite It Every Time? | |
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| How Do I Cite an Article That I Read About in Another Article or Book? | |
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| How Do I Cite a Lecture, an E-Mail, or a Conversation? | |
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| There Is a Method to the Madness | |
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| Where in the Flow of Pages Do You Place the Method Section? | |
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| Where Does This Information Go in the Method Section? | |
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| Subjects/Participants Subsection | |
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| Materials and Apparatus | |
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| Procedure | |
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| Formatting Your Method Section | |
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| And the Winner Is? Writing Your Results and Associated Fun | |
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| Let's Talk Statistics | |
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| Basics and Beyond | |
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| Formatting Your Results Paragraph | |
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| Including Effect Size and Power | |
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| Everybody Needs References | |
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| A Helpful Note | |
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| Creating Your Reference Section | |
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| Using Abbreviations | |
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| The Basics | |
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| Basic Reference Section Formatting Rules | |
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| Some of the Not-So-Basic Rules You Might Need | |
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| Presenting Your Work in APA Format | |
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| The Numbers Game: How to Write Numbers (and When the Rules Change) | |
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| When You Use Numerals | |
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| When You Use Words | |
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| Using Both Numerals and Words | |
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| How to Use Decimal Points | |
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| How Many Numbers Should Be Written After the Decimal Point? | |
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| Additional Rules for Including Numbers in Your Paper | |
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| Metrication | |
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| When Do You Use Abbreviations? | |
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| Formatting: Organizing, Headings, and Making Your Work Look Good to Print | |
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| What Goes Where? | |
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| What Your Paper Should Look Like | |
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| Headings | |
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| Spelling Matters: Spelling Rules and Capitalization | |
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| Final Touches | |
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| Table That Motion: The Special Challenges of Tables and Figures | |
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| What's What | |
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| Getting the Look Down | |
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| A Note on �Notes� | |
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| Figuring It Out | |
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| Get Legendary (and Use Captions) | |
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| Where to Place Tables and Figures | |
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| But I Am Doing a Literature Review: Coul0d I Use a Table or Figure? | |
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| Don't Forget | |
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| Make Microsoft Word 2007 Work for You: APA Formatting | |
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| Word 2007 Tabs and Drop-Down Menus | |
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| Setting the Margins | |
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| Line Spacing and Spacing Between Paragraphs | |
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| Page Headers (First Page and Subsequent Pages) and Page Numbering | |
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| Tabs, Centering, and the Ruler | |
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| References and the Hanging Indent | |
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| Preparing a Table (Rows, Columns, Lines, Centering) | |
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| Fonts and Font Variations (Italics, Bold, Superscript) | |
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| Page Breaks, Orphans, and Widows | |
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| Spell-Checker and Grammar Checker | |
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| Developing Good Habits: Autosave, File Naming, File Storage, Frequent Backups | |
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| Some Nitty-Gritty Details | |
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| Making a List, Checking It Twice: Enumeration and Seriation | |
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| Why Bother? | |
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| Keeping Order at the Section Level | |
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| Order Within Paragraphs or Sentences | |
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| On a Related Note | |
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| The Devil Is in the Details: Abbreviations, Signs, Symbols, and Punctuation | |
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| OMG: To Abbreviate or Not? | |
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| Blinding You With Science and Latin | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| In Closing: Important Considerations | |
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| Using Rubrics: Knowing What It Means to Write a Good Paper | |
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| Follow Rubrics When Provided | |
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| Example Rubric | |
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| Get It Right! Proofreading the Entire Paper | |
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| Sample Student Paper for Practicing Proofreading | |
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| Complete Sample of an Experimental Paper: Samples, Anyone? | |
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| Sample Paper | |
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| Additional Resources on Writing | |
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| All Together Now: How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes | |
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| APA Style and Format Checklist | |
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| Be Aware of Professors' Pet Peeves | |
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| Error List for Chapter18 | |
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| APA Style and Format Checklist | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |