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Mastering Apa Style: Instructor's Resource Guide

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This is a good resource guide if you need materials to test a student's knowledge of APA Style. I found it useful to evaluate students' knowledge of APA format before I had covered any material.

Unfortunately, I was expecting more information on pedagogical methods for teaching APA Style, not just for testing students on it. The resource guide consists of multiple choices evaluations and answer keys. If that is what you are looking for, it is a very useful resource.

Good reference if you are teaching a course on APA, but I haven't found it particularly helpful as a reference source to guiding writing style. I gave the book to the library at the college so they can use it as a review tool for students using the writing center and went back to the manual. That isn't the fault of the book, it just didn't meet my needs.

I'm an instructor and was looking for exam questions-just what I needed. Not as much help with learning the APA style but this wasn't my need.

The American Psychological Association (APA) errored in this publication and made correction of their error as convenient for APA as possible at the expense of the customer. I had to do without a manual for over a week as APA had to receive the defective manual before sending the corrected manual. I even offered to give them my credit card information so they could charge me if they didn't receive the defective edition. I pleaded with them to no avail. APA really needs to work on customer service and bearing the brunt of the burden for their error as opposed to inconviencing the customers.

As someone else mentioned, this is a testbank more than a user manual. As an instructor, that WOULD have been great as it would have saved me a lot of time in creating tests. But HELLO, I can't use a testbank that is available to all my students through Amazon!! Most publishers of academic sources go to a lot of effort to protect the sanctity test banks, but apparently it did not occur to the APA to keep this one off of Amazon. Too bad, because now I can't use it.