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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association | 
 enlarge | Author: American Psychological Association
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  230 reviews
Sales Rank: 16
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 439
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1557987912
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06615
EAN: 9781557987914
ASIN: 1557987912
Publication Date: July 2001
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...offers updated information on reporting statistics, writing withour bias, preparing manuscripts with a word processor for electronic production, and publishing research in accordance with ethical principles.
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APA 5th Edition is Great! September 7, 2008
I was very pleased with this book. The information in it is easy to read and apply to papers as needed. Thanks for your help!
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association September 6, 2008
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is a very good book for people who want to publish and need to know the nuts and bolts. It uses simple language. Its non-linearity is its main strength becuase it directs the reader to the specific topic needed. It is a good academic investment.
 So far I've been ripped off. I never received the product September 4, 2008
I cannot rate this product due to the fact that that it was never sent to me. I ordered two books on the same day and received one of them a few days later. I really need to be rating the seller of the book, since they ripped me off.
Manually stultifying a discipline August 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Manual of the American Psychological Association has been around in successive editions for many years and continues to set the standard for the ways in which psychologists write and communicate their discipline. Publication manuals can be necessary and there is no doubt that when the APA first established the Manual there was a need, in the era of print technology with type setting and proof editing, for precise rules on tabular settings, figure descriptions etc. The problem for today is that the continued need for such rules to guide the printer has become enshrined with a style of writing and reporting that dates from the same era. As has been pointed out several times elsewhere, the Manual was first written at the time when American psychology was dominated by the Behaviorist paradigm and by methodological operationalism. Behaviorism eschewed certain kinds of psychological states and operationalism specified only particular ways in which processes and methods could be described. Both of these paradigms have been long overturned and psychology is no longer confined by such restraints. But still the style is used to restrict the ways that young, incoming members of the profession and science are taught to write and therefore, oftentimes, to think about their subject matter and the people that they are studying. In America such restraints may only be imposed at the level of graduate study and the student will have reserves of thought and style that resist such intrusions. In other parts of the world, such restrictions are imposed from the very beginning of the undergraduate degree. Students therefore learn to think about people and operations in a way that narrows the descriptions and the thought processes that are applied to the issues and problems. If the APA was the only outlet with such restrictions, these effects would be a cause for regret but not despair. The APA style, however, has been adopted by virtually all of psychological publishing houses, so there are few escape routes. It is not a matter simply of putting the references in the correct form; it is about thinking about subject matter in severely restricted ways.
It is probably too late to hope for any change in the ways in which the APA Manual is used and further procreated. But it is a case study, worthy of serious study, of how the past, lived and recorded with good intentions, can continue to stifle the present and the future. The APA Manual has become functionally autonomous, affecting thinking but with little or no continuity with the past. To a degree it is pathological in form and, worse than that, it is a pathogen that is severely infectious.
 Excellent condition, excellent deal August 20, 2008
The book was just as advertised and in excellent condition, arriving much sooner than expected.
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