APA Style for Papers, Presentations, and Statistical Results: The Complete Guide - Softcover

Hatcher, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985867051 ISBN 13: 9780985867058

Publisher: Shadow Finch Media LLC, 2018

Synopsis

This user-friendly guide makes it easy to prepare research papers, posters, and slide presentations in the style required by the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2010):

• Comprehensive coverage of each section of an APA-style manuscript: title page, abstract, introduction, method, results, references, tables, figures, appendices, and more.
• Step-by-step instructions for correctly formatting all sections of an APA-style paper with Microsoft Office Word® (yes—even the running head!)
• Easy-to-understand instructions for creating research posters and slide presentations with Microsoft Office PowerPoint®.
• Comprehensive examples showing how to report results from widely-used statistical procedures, all in correct APA style: frequency tables, boxplots, descriptive statistics, t tests, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, correlations, chi-square, and more.
• Best-practices for reporting p values, confidence intervals, and effect size according to recommendations from APA, AERA, and ASA.
• Correct APA format for listing journal articles, books, online videos, and other sources in the References section; correct format for citing those sources in the body of the report.
• Clear, easy-to-understand examples illustrating each concept: a comprehensive 40-page sample paper, sample research posters, a complete PowerPoint® slide presentation, plus sample write-ups of all statistical procedures in text, tables, and figures.

About this title

About the Author

Larry Hatcher, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan. He is author or co-author of six textbooks on statistics and data analysis, including Advanced Statistics in Research: Reading, Understanding, and Writing Up Data Analysis Results, A Step-by-Step Approach to Using SAS® for Univariate & Multivariate Statistics and the widely-cited A Step-by-Step Approach to Using the SAS® System for Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling.

Review

Review
This is the most comprehensive book on APA style I've ever seen.  It includes everything, and I mean everything and then some.  From showing what the final product should look like to showing the MS-Word tricks needed for formatting, Hatcher's book has it all.  Nobody with this book will have to submit a paper or poster or presentation and wonder if they have met APA's style criteria.

--Dr. Jerry K. Palmer, Psychology Department, Eastern Kentucky University

Review
APA Style for Papers, Presentations, and Statistical Results is an ideal resource for social and behavioral science students, faculty, and researchers. In the book, Hatcher takes a unique approach of integrating requisite topics for producing research papers and presentations: research concepts, statistics concepts, APA guidelines, and practical information on creating poster presentations, PowerPoint presentations, and APA-style papers. The book is rich with examples that illustrate effective application of APA guidelines and reporting standards.
 
The book is particularly helpful in its offerings of practical information, including chapter checklists that guide application of the given chapter's principles and step-by-step instructions for using Microsoft Word to prepare and format papers/presentations. In addition, the chapters that cover common statistical procedures provide the rationale for using the procedure, statistical assumptions pertaining to the procedure, information about elements to include when reporting the results of the procedure, and a sample report of the procedure's results.
 
--Dr. Pamela Deering, Director of eLearning & EdTech Services, Allegany College of Maryland

Review
I found the walk-throughs to be an asset. The sample paper and other displays are easy-to-follow guides.

--Dr. William P. (Bill) Childs, Professor of Education, Frostburg State University

Review
In particular, I liked the examples coupled with the checklists.  Students routinely want examples of how to do something but then fail to extract the general guidelines or apply them to their own work. Presenting both the examples and the checklist helps students understand why the examples look the way they do and how they might address those guidelines when their projects differ from the examples. I wish I had a copy when I was preparing my Research Methods course. It would have saved me considerable time creating examples of APA style issues.

I also appreciated the chapter on creating posters. We send a lot of our undergrads to conferences to present their work in poster sessions. Your text provides good practical tips for designing and creating posters and, more importantly, it helps researchers understand how posters differ from manuscripts.

--Dr. Matthew Hayes, Department of Psychology, Winthrop University

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This book will be an immediate replacement for the twobooks that I currently use for my Laboratory in Psychology class. Therewere several components of the book that I especially appreciated--Igive three examples below. First, the presentation about effect sizes is excellent. I've had to create my own table about interpreting effectsizes and have now switched over to using a copy of Larry Hatcher'stable.

A second example is the inclusion of how to perform somefairly basic word processing functions in Microsoft Word. I teach mystudents a few of these tips; it's nice to have these and many more Ilisted within the text.

Finally, I've spent countless hours explaining what content goes in each section.  Larry Hatcher's guide for this is excellent.

--Dr. Timothy Franz, Department of Psychology, St. John Fisher College

Edition details

• Publisher: Shadow Finch Media LLC
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0985867051
• ISBN 13: 9780985867058
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 577