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Product Description:
Style manual for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals across all fields. Provides clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style. Includes examples, new guidelines and advice, and more. Previous edition: c1994. Softcover, wire-spiral edition is also available. Hardcover edition due later.

Rating : - A necessary evil
This style guide is a necessary evil for scholarly publishing in education, but it is bewilderingly fussy. One example of this fussiness is in the five levels of subheadings it prescribes.

Most sensible writers would use a simple sequential system, where the first level is always first, the second level is always second, and so forth through as many levels as needed. APA's system starts with Level 1, but if you have two levels, you should use Level 1 and Level 3 (unless you use Level 1 and Level 4). If you use three levels you use Level 1, Level 3 and Level 4, while the orphaned Level 2 finally makes its appearance as a fourth level in its numerical position between Level 1 and Level 3. So where does Level 5 go? If you need five levels, Level 5 goes ahead of the other four. How sensible!

Also, the current publication manual (2001) does NOT contain the current style for citing electronic references. The APA published an updated APA Style Guide to Electronic References (2007), which they will be happy to sell you as a separate PDF for another $12. Do not put yourself through this pain unless it is absolutely required.