Pocket Guide to APA Style - Softcover

Perrin, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 128542591X ISBN 13: 9781285425917

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2014

Synopsis

The POCKET GUIDE TO APA STYLE, 5E is an essential tool for writing research papers across the disciplines. Concise and thorough, the POCKET GUIDE offers straightforward explanations, annotated examples, and margin notes designed to help writers produce properly documented papers in the latest APA style. Not only less expensive and easier to use than the APA Manual, the POCKET GUIDE also includes extensive coverage of electronic sources, preparing writers to evaluate and use Internet references correctly in their research.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Perrin (Ph.D., University of Illinois -- Champaign/Urbana) is Chairperson of the Department of English at Indiana State University; he previously served as Director of Writing Programs for 17 years. He has won the university's Caleb Mills Award for distinguished teaching and the Theodore Dreiser Award for distinguished research, as well as the College of Arts and Sciences' Distinguished Professor award. He has published numerous articles on composition and teaching as well as seven textbooks and research guides, including THE BEACON HANDBOOK (six editions) and HANDBOOK FOR COLLEGE RESEARCH (four editions).

Review:

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About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 128542591X
• ISBN 13: 9781285425917
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 192