The APA Pocket Handbook

Download or read book The APA Pocket Handbook written by Jill Rossiter and published by Dw Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Coincides with the 6th ed. of the APA manual (2nd printing) This handbook is ideal for preparing undergraduate essays. It was specifically designed with the average student's needs in mind. The book is intended to cover the vast majority of situations that the normal student will encounter while writing a college essay. Organized for speed and brevity, the book is primarily a concentrated, up-to-date guide on APA format (11 pages) and documentation requirements (12 pages In-Text, 19 pages References) with a heavy emphasis on examples and visual aids (90 to be exact). Additionally the book contains pointers on how to get started, what to document, what notes to take (by source type), and how to handle quotes of varying length. All of this in a book designed to fit in a shirt pocket.