A good response; see below; I hope this attachment format works. Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
--- Begin Message ---Dear Dr. Taylor: Dr. VandenBos has been out of the country and forwarded your note to me for reply. The Publication Manual is one of the most important books we publish. Before this edition of the Publication Manual was released, it was put through multiple stages of editing and proofing and was painstakingly examined by many sets of eyes before it was released to the printer. Despite this process, errors like those you identify below occurred. We share your dismay and deeply regret the confusion caused by the subsequent discrepancy between the sample papers and the text. To remedy this, we have posted corrected papers in the Related Resources section of the APA Style website (www.apastyle.org <http://www.apastyle.org/> ). We will be posting a full list of reprint corrections within the next few weeks. Thank you for bearing with us during this regrettable mishap. Sincerely, Mary Lynn Skutley Editorial Director, APA Books 750 First Street NE Washington, DC 20002-4242 (202) 336-5768 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:03 PM To: VandenBos, Gary Subject: new edition apa manual I am writing to tell how dismayed and confused I am over the new style manual. There are quite a few discrepancies between the text and the sample paper. This is unfortunate. Just Friday I submitted a paper to an APA journal, and wanting to get used to the new style, looked to the sample paper (as a short cut) to make headings and layout conform to the new style. Unfortunately, I have now realized that I made several errors. I understand from colleagues that errata will be publised at the apa.org website, but this is difficult to keep up with. As a teacher of undergraduate research methods in psychology at the lower and upper division levels, this is also disconcerting. It is difficult for me, as a teacher, to get used the changes, but it is all that much harder for the students to learn APA style when the sample paper doesn't conform to the style. In my 20+ years of teaching I have been able to tell students to check the sample paper in the APA manual as the final word, and ignore the one in whatever textbooks they had at their disposal, as the manual was "the" final word. Well, apparently not any longer. So there is no final sample for students to model. Hopefully there will be a second printing and I can get another "desk" copy that will have the changes in it. Annette Taylor Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected]
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