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Mastering APA Style: Students Workbook and Training Guide

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While this appears to be an excellent textbook, it was not a helpful resource to those looking for information on citing various references and sources. This book is strictly for those who are or will be writing papers meant for publication. However, if you are looking for a book with listings of how to cite your sources (i.e. a bibliography) you won't find that information here.

Take careful note of what is written on page 10 before you even think of ordering this unhelpful guide:

"Be sure you have a copy of the Publication Manual (5th edition) before you begin to use the workbook."

Mastering APA Style is just a compilation of several multiple-choice tests that are supposed to help with mastering this style of writing. There are no rules and there are no helpful tips on researching and writing publications; it is entirely a book of examples. And each example points to a specific rule detailed in the Publication Manual, a different guide entirely!

Hopefully the Publication Manual succeeds at explaining what APA style really is, because this training guide doesn't. Unless you already know how to get around using APA, do not waste your money on this book.

...I can honestly say that it was easier learning the Korean language than it is trying to master this obfuscatory, often convoluted way of formatting papers.

Notwithstanding, for those of us among the uninitiated, help is here in the form of this workbook. Mastering APA Style can be a tremendous resource if you remember two vitally important cavaets: (1)Don't try to discern the "logic" of why APA does the things it does, just do it the way they say to do it, and you won't get mixed up an frustrated. (2) The more you use APA, the better you will become. I am entering my second year of graduate school and I am convinced that it will take another two years to master all of the subtleties and nuances of the APA format.

This book, however, will make the ride much, much smoother!

To graduate students in any counseling field, this is your bible. All of your research papers must be done in APA style and that is exactly what this book in dedicated to. I help you in simple terms to learn and perfect the infamous APA style

This workbook can be a good resource if you are interested in learning APA Style. The best way to learn is through practice and you'll get plenty of it if you complete all the exercises in this book! It can be dry at times, but that is the nature of the topic area.

In my opinion, there are some details that are not essential for an undergraduate student. However, if you plan on pursuing psychology as a career (particularly in research or academics) this workbook can help develop your mastery of APA style.

The APA Style: Student Workbook and Training Guide is an excellent tool for any college student at any level. I am in my senior year of college and have struggled with my writing abilities from the beginning. Thanks to this Workbook, I was able to narrow down my weaknesses and actually work on my problematic areas like: grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure.

The spiral notebook style of this book comes in very handy when studying the book itself or using it as a reference book when writing papers. I recommend this book to anyone needing help with problematic writing errors or just need an APA Style Manual to assist with references.

Yes, I purchased the "Mastering APA Style," Student's Workbook and Training Guide, it is a wonderful book. It has showed me a lot about the Grammer I guess I missed out on in school, but I am due to the contents in this book, getting better at writing. This book has been a great purchase in my future, if anyone is looking for a good book to learn APA writing style this is the book for you.

This book was very helpful for me because it had actual exercises for me to evaluate and complete and the answers were on the opposite page. Because of the ring binder, it was easy to complete the exercise without being tempted to look over to the next page. But once I was done, opening the book with the pages both in view aided me with understanding when I was incorrect and why.

This book helped me so little it wasn't worth the price, any price, to purchase it. It's confusing and hard to read. Yuch!

The APA Manual provides all that you need - don't bother with this unless you have never written a paper before in your life.