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Adding to the author's other texts in this series (APA Style for Psychology, APA Style for Social Work), Szuchman quickly and succinctly provides all the basics of APA style in this handy workbook-type reference guide written specifically for counseling students. Her years of experience teaching writing-intensive courses give her an inside track on the trouble spots students encounter in writing papers and dealing with APA style.

Introduction

1

(8)

Social Science

1

(2)

How to Use This Book

3

(1)

Ethics in Writing

4

(3)

A Word of Explanation

7

(2)

Some Generalizations About How Social Scientists Write

9

(12)

Referring to Other Authors

9

(1)

Words and Phrases to Collect

10

(5)

Constructions to Avoid

15

(6)

Preparing the Introduction Section and Literature Review Paper

21

(12)

What Was Done and Why

22

(4)

Literature Review

26

(3)

When the Literature Review Is the Paper

29

(4)

Preparing the Method Section

33

(12)

Organization

33

(1)

Participants

34

(5)

Materials

39

(2)

Procedure

41

(2)

Remember Your Audience

43

(2)

Preparing the Results Section

45

(10)

Statistics

45

(7)

Useful Rules

52

(3)

Preparing the Discussion Section

55

(10)

First Part

56

(1)

Second Part

57

(3)

Third Part

60

(3)

Verb Tense

63

(2)

Preparing the Abstract

65

(6)

Contents

66

(3)

Style

69

(2)

Preparing the References Section

71

(6)

Typing Hints

71

(1)

Alphabetizing

72

(1)

Journal Article Reference

73

(1)

Chapter in an Edited Book

74

(1)

An Authored Book

75

(1)

References in the Body of the Manuscript

75

(1)

Electronic Reference Formats

76

(1)

Preparing a Title Page and Formatting Your Manuscript

77

(4)

Writing a Title

77

(2)

The Parts of the Title Page

79

(1)

Advice About Typing

80

(1)

Grooming Tips for Counseling Papers

81

(12)

Parallel Construction

81

(2)

Half-Empty Comparisons

83

(1)

Agreement Between Subject and Verb

84

(1)

Agreement Between Noun and Pronoun

85

(1)

Run-On Sentence or Comma Splice

86

(2)

Colons With Lists

88

(1)

Comma With a Series

88

(1)

Misplaced Comma Before AND (and Sometimes OR)

89

(1)

Comma When You Need a Breath

90

(1)

Important Differences Between People and Things

90

(3)

Preparing a Poster Presentation

93

(6)

What Is a Poster Session

93

(1)

Preparing the Poster

94

(2)

Preparing Yourself

96

(3)

APPENDIX Wrapping It Up: Revising

99

(6)

First Rewrite

99

(3)

Second Rewrite

102

(1)

Third Inspection---Not a Rewrite

102

(2)

Final Touches

104

(1)

References

105

(2)

Index

107

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Writing with Style APA Style for Counseling (with InfoTrac)

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