Customer Comments:
 What is your frustration tolerance threshold? April 8, 2002
7 out of 8 found this comment useful.
How do I get through this thing in time to write my paper that's due tomorrow?! This "manual" is NOT user-friendly.
 Ya Gotta Have It March 29, 2002
1 out of 3 found this comment useful.
If you plan on doing any research in the social sciences in any way shape or form whatsoever, you must have this book.
 Embarrassing (for the APA) March 25, 2002
6 out of 6 found this comment useful.
You would think that a publication manual would try to exemplify the standard for published work. Obviously, this isn't true for the APA. This publication "manual" lives up to its name; it requires a lot of manual effort to make sense of it. Poorly organized and hard to use, the only reason it sells is because it's the standard reference for a required format, if people want their articles published, or students want their papers accepted. I would not recommend this book to anyone, unless you're required to write in the APA format, in which case you have no choice. This manual alone is a good reason to avoid writing in the field of social science.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association March 19, 2002
8 out of 9 found this comment useful.
We were mandated to buy this book for use when writing papers for our master's program. I have found it extremely poorly organized. Some items I can't find at all. For instance, I wanted to find out how to format an interview. Can't find it anywhere in this book. Our instructor told us to annotate our bibliographies. I cannot find anything in this book on annotated bibliographies. So far this book has been literally useless to me as a resource. It is very hard to locate any example of what your reference should look like, it is far too complex for simple college paper writing and is missing items (listed above). I haven't used it yet.
You can't write a paper without it! February 21, 2002
15 out of 19 found this comment useful.
I found this version a lot more "user friendly" than the previous version, which I thought was very confusing. The fact that this resource is offered as "spiral bound" makes it a plus also. The sections that deal with proper grammar and punctuation use are logically formatted and easy to understand. After writing a couple of papers using this book I can honestly say that I am "getting the hang" of using the APA format.
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