title: The World's Easiest Guide to Using the Apa: A User-Friendly Manual for Formatting Research Papers According to the American Psychological Association Style Guide (World's Easiest Guides)
author:  Carol J. Amato 
description: Carol J. Amato is the author of twenty books and over 175 articles. A faculty member at the university level, Ms. Amato teaches writing, anthropology, and management classes. Ms. Amato has a B.A. in Spanish and French from the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from California State University - Fullerton in Fullerton, California. She is a current board member of the Writers' Club of Whittier, a professional writers' workshop, and a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She was a board member of International PEN, Orange County Chapter, for several years and served as president of the Professional Writers of Orange County for three years. She was a board member of the Orange County section of the Independent Writers of Southern California for five years. She is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in Orange County, and the World Who's Who of Women.
zlib_text: APA: MADE EASIER 
   
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  APA: Made Easier 
  This guide provides accessibility to the basics of the APA writing style to help students 
  use it correctly and write professionally.  Under each section is an excerpt taken directly 
  from the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological 
  Association (APA, 2010). Go to the page number that is listed in bold in each section for 
  further information on a particular topic.  *Go to www.apastyle.org for further help. The 
  website provides tutorials that demonstrate sample title pages and reference pages.  
  REMEMBER: A cover page is always required and includes the running head of no 
  more than 50 characters, which will then appear at the left margin of each page of your 
  paper.  Page 41 clarifies the elements required on the cover page. Omit the Author Note.  
  Check with your professor as to whether an Abstract is required.   
  I. Taken from “Writing Clearly and Concisely” on page 65: 
  *Practice continuity in your writing by