دانلود کتاب APA Style & Citations for Dummies

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Title Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nIntroduction\n About This Book\n Foolish Assumptions\n Icons Used in This Book\n Where to Go from Here\nPart 1 Conforming to Standards: APA and the Academic Environment\n Chapter 1 Capitalizing on Consistency: APA and the Academic Classroom\n Understanding APA and Academic Standards\n Standardizing how you handle topics\n Respecting the academic environment\n Comparing APA and MLA\n Identifying Your Role in Academic Process\n APA and high school classrooms\n APA and college courses\n APA and comp courses\n APA and content courses\n APA and online courses\n Confronting Cultural Differences — APA and Nonnative English Students\n Seeking a professor who supports language learning\n Understanding that English isn’t easy\n Making the transition seamlessly\n Chapter 2 Updating and Debugging: APA Seventh Edition\n Transitioning from the Sixth: APA for Today\n Focusing on the Title Page and Page Organization\n Running heads\n Period spacing\n Levels of headings\n Font options\n DOI and URL Formatting\n Paper length\n Bold section headings\n Writing improvement plan\n Page order\n Eyeing the Changes with Citations and References\n Addressing Bias-Free Writing Style and Updated Mechanics\n Approaching APA Updates: Mindset\n Student Publishing: Your Goal As a Serious Writer\n Chapter 3 Understanding Expectations: APA and Discourse Communities\n Understanding Academic Expectations in College\n Figuring out what you want to achieve in college\n Fulfilling your professors’ expectations: Your needs\n Examining APA Expectations\n Overcoming Adversity\n Identifying Discourse Communities You’ll Encounter in College\n College communities\n Course communities\n APA community\n Graduation community\n Chapter 4 Protecting Scholarship: Plagiarism\n Academic Integrity: Get Your Sheepskin\n Defining academic integrity\n Looking at the research\n Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty: You Know Better\n Cheating\n Self-plagiarism\n Patchwriting\n Conflicts of interest\n Unauthorized collaboration\n Falsification\n Plagiarism\n Avoiding Plagiarism: Your Responsibilities\n Manage your time wisely\n Advocate academic integrity\n Identify assignment limitations\n Detail your research\n Practice responsible citing\n Utilize APA feedback resources\n Steer clear of unreliable strategies\n Closing Cultural Gaps: APA Strategies for Nonnative English Students\n Grasping cultural differences in education\n Utilizing additional APA strategies for nonnative English students\nPart 2 Earning Applause: APA Writing for the Academic Audience\n Chapter 5 Writing for Success: APA Writing Style\n Focusing on the Why and How: Audience and Purpose\n Academic and assignment audience\n Purpose\n Zeroing In: Assignment Approach and Focus\n Approach\n Focus\n Smooth Sailing: Transitions and Flow\n Organizational flow\n Transition strategies\n Writing with Attitude: Tone\n Recalling Sandbox Lessons: Respectful Language\n Racial and ethnic references\n Age and disability references\n Gender and sexual orientation references\n Socioeconomic references\n Chapter 6 Creating a Foundation: The Principal Parts of Speech, Structure, and Usage\n Shining the Spotlight on the Stars of the Show: Action Verbs\n Using your voice\n Being in agreement\n Focusing on tense\n Avoiding Anonymity: Nouns\n Designating Replacements: Pronouns\n Staying in agreement\n Eyeing APA person preferences\n Using the singular “they”\n Building Basics: Structures\n Sentences and paragraphs\n Parallelism\n Reducing Confusion: Problem Pairs\n Problem pairs\n Problem pronouns\n Misplaced description\n Chapter 7 Navigating Pages: Conventions of Style\n Marking Cadence: Punctuation\n End punctuation and spacing\n Comma\n Semicolon and colon\n Dashes and slashes\n Quotation marks\n Parentheses, brackets, and ellipses\n Seeking Attention: Special Conventions\n Italics\n Abbreviations\n Numbers\n Perfecting Appearance: Spelling\n Spelling strategies\n Possessives\n Foreign forms\n Hyphenation\n Standing Tall: Capitalization\n Proper nouns\n Titles and headings\n Chapter 8 Covering All Bases: Three-Level Revising\n Revising: Why Rewriting Is So Important\n Seeking feedback when revising\n Rewriting in action: A real-life example\n Streamlining: Structural Organization\n Opening: Working title, first sentence, and introduction\n Middle\n Closing\n Paring: Paragraphs and Sentences\n Sentence starters\n Spoken-language wordiness\n Wordy phrases and clauses\n Whittling Words\n Unnecessary and overused words\n Verb and ly-adverb combinations\n Superfluous verb endings\n Chapter 9 Achieving Your Personal Best: Student Improvement Plan\n Understanding What Makes a College Reader\n Developing Lifetime Literacy Skills: Reading for Success\n Reading to learn\n Improving your reading plan\n Writing As a Skill for Lifetime Success\n Developing Lifetime Literacy Skills: Writing for Success\n Writing to learn\n Putting together your writing improvement plan\n Studying in Small Groups: Literacy and Socializing\nPart 3 Practicing Safe Cites: Writing and Citing Sources\n Chapter 10 Gaining Insight: To Cite or Not to Cite\n Crediting Sources: General Guidelines\n Full and partial quotations\n Block quotations\n Summarizing and paraphrasing\n Statistical data within the context of research\n Terms specific to a field\n Tables, Internet images, and clip art\n Facts and figures that aren’t common knowledge\n Controversial information that contradicts generally accepted truths\n No citations required\n Coordinating Citations: Common Elements\n Citing author-date format\n Citing repeated narratives\n Sections of a source\n Citing an unknown author\n Citing numerous authors\n Citing same author, same date\n Citing authors with the same surname\n Citing organization authors\n Addressing Special Approaches: Personal, Authoritative, and Legal\n Personal communication\n Academic authorities\n Legal reference\n Citing Electronic Sources: Websites, Periodicals, Software, and Visuals\n Evaluating Sources\n Determining what makes a reliable source\n Assessing the quality of the sources cited\n Chapter 11 Preparing for Conflict: Source Engagement\n Pre-Gaming: Gathering Sources\n Rehearsing: Preparing Sources\n Using signal phrases\n Summarizing and citing correctly\n Paraphrasing and citing correctly\n Quoting and citing correctly\n Synthesizing: Engaging with Sources\n Author and source\n Source and source\n Source, source, and author\n Source, source, and source\n Primary sources as engagement\n Post-Gaming: Verifying Information\n Chapter 12 Formatting Last Impressions: Reference List\n Playing by the Rules: General Guidelines\n Coordinating Reference Elements: Author, Date, Title, and Source\n Author\n Date\n Title\n Source\n Clarifying Elements: Reference Conventions and Abbreviations\n Punctuating your references\n Capitalizing references\n Playing by the Rules: Specifics for Formatting Periodicals\n Seeing Is Believing: Real-Life Reference Items\n Books and reference works\n Edited book chapters and works in reference books\n Periodical and journal articles\n Reports\n Audiovisual media and works\n Online media\n Conferences and presentations\n Webpages and websites\n Legal reference\n Extending References: Annotated Bibliography\nPart 4 Perfecting Presentation: Beginnings, Endings, and Other Writings\n Chapter 13 Preparing Appetizers and Desserts: Front and Back Materials\n Opening Impressions: Formatting Front Matter\n Previewing your paper: Table of contents\n Listing figures and tables\n Focusing on abstracts\n Including an executive summary\n Closing Remarks: Formatting Back Matter\n Wrapping up with appendixes\n Ending with a glossary\n Including footnotes and endnotes\n Chapter 14 Acing a First Impression: Formatting Title Page and Page Layout\n Naming Writes: Title Page and Titles\n Recognizing title page elements\n Strategizing for writing titles\n Packaging Appearance: Formatting and Organization\n Page formatting: Consistency is key\n Page organization: Sequence is essential\n Chapter 15 Understanding First Year Writing: APA Essays and Reaction Papers\n Conquering College Comp: Essay Basics\n Differentiating essays from research writing\n Identifying the fundamentals of writing an essay\n Focusing on Essay Structure and Formatting\n Writing a memorable essay title\n Starting your essay with a bang\n Giving the body what it needs: Figurative language\n Avoiding crash endings\n Formatting your essay\n Formatting your essay citations\n Implementing Essay Variations: Common College Essays\n Narrative\n Cause and effect\n Comparison and contrast\n Expository\n Persuasive\n Descriptive\n Reading and Responding: Reaction Paper Basics\n Writing a successful reaction paper\n Organizing a reaction paper\n Formatting a reaction paper\n Chapter 16 Mastering Advanced Writing: APA Review of Literature\n Reviewing Literature: Searches and Steps\n Starting the search\n Focusing on the topic\n Sequencing the process in four steps\n Studying Samples: Introduction, Body, and Conclusion\n Starting with the thesis: The introduction\n Developing the thesis: The body\n Ending with significant findings: The conclusion\n Determining other major sections\n Laying Out Pages and the Title Page of the APA Literature Review\n Chapter 17 Perfecting Specialized Writings: APA Reports\n APA Report Writing: Creating and Organizing\n Eyeing the purpose and benefits of reports\n Examining report characteristics\n Writing Reports in Six Easy-to-Follow Steps\n Step 1: Plan and focus\n Step 2: Search for information\n Step 3: Analyze the information\n Step 4: Organize major and optional sections\n Step 5: Write the report\n Step 6: Revise\n Adapting APA Formatting to Reports\n Studying Report Samples: Introduction, Body, and Conclusion\n Introduction\n Body\n Conclusion\n Organizing Your Report: Other Essential Sections\n Acknowledgments\n Glossary\n Executive summary\n Transmittal memo\n Table of contents\n Methodology\n Recommendations\n Appendixes\n Discussion\n APA Report Writing: Specializing and Personalizing\n Business reports\n Education reports\n Science reports\n Periodic reports\n Sales and marketing reports\n Proposal reports\n Feasibility studies\n Recommendation reports\n Technical reports\n Academic reports\n Project progress reports\n Field reports\n Research reports\nPart 5 The Parts of Ten\n Chapter 18 Ten Priorities for Proficient Academic Writing\n Analyze Assignments\n Focus on Audience and Purpose\n Begin Assignments with Background Reading\n Plan Projects\n Focus on Specific Nouns and Action Verbs\n Reference Sources Beyond Professors’ Expectations\n Write Tight and Revise\n Read and Read Some More\n Write, Write, and Write\n Develop a Writer’s Work Ethic\n Chapter 19 Ten Strategies for Creative Source Engagement\n Look for Power Language within Sources\n Think Critically to Analyze Sources\n Utilize Professors as a Source\n Extend Conversations\n Master a Variety of Signal Phrases\n Use Source Engagement with Every Applicable College Paper\n Engage Exclusively with Classic Sources\n Engage with Anecdotes\n Learn from Sources\n Turn to Primary Sources\n Chapter 20 Ten Tips for High-Scoring Research Papers\n Form a Study Group\n Peer Up\n Include a Few Optional Parts\n Schedule Reviews with Your Writing Center\n Perfect Your Reference List\n Select a Local Topic with a Global Application\n Contact an Expert for an Interview\n Create Checklists\n Attend to Details\n Utilize the Professor’s Office Hours\nIndex\nEULA