Writing with Style: APA Style Made Easy (with InfoTrac) - Softcover

Szuchman, Lenore T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534572413 ISBN 13: 9780534572419

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

This accessible and invaluable workbook-style reference guide will help your students smooth the transition from writing for composition classes to writing for psychology classes. Author Lenore T. Szuchman quickly and succinctly provides the basics of APA style in WRITING WITH STYLE. Szuchman's years of experience teaching writing-intensive courses give her an inside track on the trouble spots students often encounter when writing papers and dealing with APA style. The unique workbook format offers both a quick reference to APA style and interactive exercises that give students a chance to practice what they've learned. They'll be encouraged to use already published articles as models, so they're introduced to journal sources in a nonthreatening way. Szuchman pinpoints the kinds of errors that are often made, followed by suggested solutions.

About this title

About the Author:

Lenore T. Szuchman, Ph.D., Florida International University, is a developmental psychologist and Professor Emerita of Psychology at Barry University, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses on lifespan development as well as undergraduate research methods courses. She has supervised a wide range of master's theses and senior projects that have been published and presented at professional and student conferences regionally and nationally. She has been awarded funding for research from the National Institute on Aging and received the Barry University President's Award for Excellence in Research. She is the author and coauthor of articles on cognition and social cognition in older adults as well as on gender issues in various age groups. In addition to being the author of WRITING WITH STYLE: APA STYLE MADE EASY, she is co-editor of the book, PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN SEXUALITY (John Wiley and Sons). She has been a member of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and the American Psychological Association (APA). She has also served as a Psychology Councilor for the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).

Review:

"As an instructor who has struggled for years with trying to teach APA-style writing as part of the research methods class, this book is a god-send. By emphasizing the 'stock' words and phrases used by research psychologists, the author has identified a major route to teaching the most important parts of writing in psychology."

"Well written. The author is good at predicting the kinds of problems students tend to exhibit. . . I particularly like the exercises that require students to examine actual research articles and analyze the writing for format . . . I found myself saying 'Yes!' in response to issues that I find important, yet rarely covered in traditional textbooks."

"Makes explicit many of those implicit things that experts take for granted . . . I really enjoyed the narrative portions of this book. I think students would, too."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0534572413
• ISBN 13: 9780534572419
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 143