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So User Friendly!!!.......2006-08-11
Students! Save your sanity! This user friendly guide takes all the stress out of using the APA Style Guide! Why waste your time hassling through the Publication Manual when you can use this easy-to-read version instead? I find this manual completely understandable and thorough. It tells you everything you need to know about APA style so you can format your paper quickly and easily. Your time can be spent on the content of your paper instead!
Great Book!.......2005-09-02
The person writing the review below obviously did not look on the copyright page of "The World's Easiest Guide to Using the APA" to see that this book is geared for undergraduates only, especially lower-division and English-as-a-Second-Language students. He is a professional, editing at the graduate level. He needs to be using the regular Publication Manual. He is being unfair in his assessment of The World's Easiest Guide to Using the APA, since the book is not meant for grad-level students. Many colleges and universities around the country have adopted this book because of its user-friendly layout. It takes the students step-by-step through the creation of a research paper, from the title page to the references. Any lower-division student will be thrilled with its easy-to-understand steps. Full-size, sample papers are included in the appendices.
Next to worthless.......2004-01-23
Do not buy this unless you have the opportunity to see one first, or are willing to return it. THIS GUIDE COVERS FORMATTING ALMOST TO THE EXCLUSION OF EVERYTHING ELSE IMPORTANT IN APA. I bought this for help with an editing job I do part-time for a professional journal. It is so inadequate, it will go straight into the garbage can. There are free online APA style Guides which are by far better.
There are eight chapters in this.The first 6 are about page setup, grapics, citing references, and other basic stuff. These cover the first 91 pages. The bulk of the rest of the book is about setting up reference lists! Over 100 pages for this. I suppose someone may need this much on it, but I suspect most don't. It usually gives an example of a reference and then gives step-by-step instructions to make your own. I do mean detailed. "At the left margin, type the author's..." If you need this much detail, you probably need instructions telling you to turn the page too.
Punctuation and spelling is covered in Chap 8. It contains TWO pages! It is so simplistic as to be worse than useless. It is more of a joke.
This book contains little but instructions for fromatting. Perhaps it is my fault that I did not read the detail about this thing before ordering, but for some reason--call me a fool--I thought an APA users guide covered all the APA. I was certainly wrong there.
Caution if Your Buying this Book.......2003-02-13
My University requires Master's students to use APA 5th Edition. So, when I checked the inside of my new book (this one) I read that it corresponds to the 5th Edition, but other students in my class were having different style basics, so I feel I can't trust it. I checked with the American Psychological Association and they said "We cannot endorse a non-APA product. There are a lot of them out there, and they are riddled with mistakes." So the APA does not recognize this edition. Also, the inside of this edition says "This book is intended for undergraduate use only" - something they don't tell you before you order.
out-of-date information.......2002-03-01
The APA revised their citation guidelines in a new publication dated 2001. It is the fifth edition. Therefore, Carol Amato's book has incorrect information in it.
Book Description
This popular handbook presents a step-by-step method for clearly explaining a product, system, or procedure. The easy-to-follow text--packed with examples and illustrations--explains the unique demands of this form of writing and shows how to set up the best user model. The book covers developing a modular outline and storyboard, generating the draft, revising, developing a formal usability test, and supporting and updating user documentation. Also included are a glossary of terms, a listing of books and periodicals for additional information, and an index.
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Solid, Spartan Book.......2006-11-18
Not a lot of waste involved with this book. The reviews here are right on. This book shows how to do tech writing by example. It also gives reliable guidelines for doumentation planning. If you are a starting tech writer reading this book is what you need to do solid instructions writing. it does not really cover documentation technologies, but after reading this book you should be able to choose technologies that enable the type of doc writing and concepts in this book.
A system for saving your sanity.......2001-01-03
This book is all about applying engineering principles to document production. Basically, you start with questions like: "Who is this documentation for?" and "What is the document's purpose?". You then plan your document as a series of modules. By creating a title, abstract and outline for each module, you have a basis to discuss, test, plan and assign sections of the document. I've seen a few technical books follow the layout guidelines presented in this book, and the results are usable and readable. The procedures will take your team some getting used to -- but the results are worth it. My documentation projects that were overwhelming became manageable.
Planning steps key to good documents.......2000-08-22
Weiss covers all the basics: not just how to write, but how to plan documentation so that it benefits the user, the technical contributor and the person responsible for getting the documentation to users. The ideas are practical, sensible and well formed. Examples and exhibits (graphics) provide real-life models. The writing is clear, concise and a prime example of the author's premise. The typography and layout do the same. This is just what my boss (an engineer) and I (a tech writer) have been looking for: ways to upgrade our documentation process and our documents. The structure suits us wonderfully and is easier to apply than I thought possible.
Mandatory reading.......1999-02-18
This book clearly and succinctly lays out the objectives and the methods of technical writing. After 15 years in the business I still haven't seen another book that comes even close to this one.
Excellent book!.......1997-07-16
Excellent book! I used the book for a technical communications course. I initially had reservations about the book but I became a 'convert' after reading it and following the author's approach.
The author recommends a modular approach to creating user documents. His book contains specific information on how to analyze the audience, create a storyboard, and present the material, etc
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- Format is very important to create a good manual
- Best Publication to date on developing Desktop Publications
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A Guide to Publishing User Manuals (Wiley Technical Communication Library Series)
Ken Whitaker
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Targets those on a tight budget who are producing user manuals with whatever desktop publishing they currently have installed on their PCs. Provides indispensable advice in order to create a manual from start to finish with emphasis on organizing the document, administering the documentation process, style guidelines, desktop publishing techniques, producing graphics, drawing, and screen shots. Includes a wealth of diagrams, templates, and screen shots.
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Format is very important to create a good manual.......2000-11-10
To start a software company and develop the product in UK, I looked for books about writing user manuals. Other books focus on how to write good contents. But this book focuses on how to create a good format. In the process of the manual production, I had to make a decision whether I create the manual internally or ask any technical documentation companies. By interviewing the technical documentation companies, I found that I had to provide contents anyway. However, the structure of contents depends on how to format the manual. By adopting the exact manual structure suggested in this book, I first defined the format of the manual , wrote the contents by myself and asked a technical editor to correct them for mistakes in grammar. By using this process, I could write a manual with a short time and less confusion. This book made me realize that the user manual writing is like a database development, putting the right details of information into the right layer of the document (Chapter, Sub chapter, note, etc). And I had never realized that I had to use so many fonts to write a nice looking manual and that there are font designers who spend their life to create new fonts. In next edition, It will be helpful if the book provides a enclosed diskette which contains templates.
Best Publication to date on developing Desktop Publications.......1997-07-07
If you wish to self-publish and you use Framemaker or Ventura software, this book is for you. I've read numerous books on the subject, but none so detailed (and accurate). Takes you from Style Designs and Page Layout to Graphics and Final Publication. This is written for the DTP user who is looking for help in using the software as well as tips to develop a professional publication, whether it is a manual or book. A ten star rating without question
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New Subediting gives a detailed account of modern editing and production techniques. Its aim is both to help the young subeditor and to spell out to the newcomer to newspaper journalism what happens between the writing of news stories and features and their appearance in the newspaper when it comes off the press.
In this age of technological change the quality of the subbing has never been more important to a successful newspaper. The careful use of typography, pictures, graphics and compelling headlines and the skillful handling of text coupled with good page planning, all help to give character,style and readability.
This book examines, and draws lessons from, work in contemporary newspapers in editing and presentation; it defines the varied techniques of copytasting, of editing news stories and features, of styles of headline writing and the use of typography to guide and draw the attention of the reader. It takes into account developments in the use of English as a vehicle of mass communication in two important chapters on structure and word use; and it shows how to get the best out of the electronic tools now available to subeditors.
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Title: A Guide to Publishing User Manuals. (book reviews)
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Technical Communication (Refereed)
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Volume: v44
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- Good view of "passing"
- Irish American - NOT African American
- The Survival of Bigotry
- So That's Where These Ideas are Coming From!
- Please publish this book in paperback
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Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920
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"O'Toole tells the remarkably well documented story of an American family negotiating the terrain of race and ethnicity in the nineteenth century. Working at the intersection of church history and racial and ethnic history, he demonstrates that racial categories have been more fluid than law and custom admit. The Healys found freedom and extraordinary achievement by embracing their Irish heritage and the Catholic faith, while distancing themselves from their African roots and slave status. This important book presents a more complex American racial past and contributes to our understanding of the challenges of a multiracial future."--Lois E. Horton and James Oliver Horton, authors of "In Hope of Liberty and Black Bostonians"
"O'Toole places into context the Healys' decision to live life as a White family, turning their backs on their mother's lineage. Should they have proudly asserted their Black heritage? Could they? And whom would that have helped? While 'Passing for White' is a thorough work of history, O'Toole manages to keep the material readable. . . . The story is the thing. And it is a great story."--(Cleveland) Call and Post
"A remarkably interesting story. The research is very impressive in both thoroughness and scope. I know of no book that is anywhere near as complete in its extraordinary story of an entire family in the United States when the nation was so heavily, both historically and fundamentally, a bi- rather than multiple-`racial' society."--Winthrop D. Jordan, author of "White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812"
"This book is enormously informative on the subject of race and religion in the nineteenth century, beautifully told and superbly researched. . . . It will be one of the best books we have on nineteenth-century Catholic history and an important study for the rapidly growing field of `racial' identity."--John T. McGreevy, author of "Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North"
"[A] lucid, riveting work. . . . I cannot begin to indicate the importance of this work for what it tells us about the Catholic Church in nineteenth-century America or about race relations. O'Toole is to be commended for a fine, well-balanced work that examines an issue that the Church wrestles with even today."--St. Anthony's Messenger
Customer Reviews:
Good view of "passing".......2006-03-15
I'm somewhat biased from having studied under Dr O'Toole who is a friendly and generous scholar. That said this book is a good microhistory of one families experience at "passing". There's a fairly deft handling here of identity politics as the Healy sibling redefined themselves from being Black to being Catholic and white. There is an assumption that the siblings Black heritage should be just as important as their Irish heritage, and at times the book is a little sad as many of the Healy siblings very forcefully turn their back on their former Black identity. The book is fascinating both as the reconstruction of a 19th century family (which is the direction from which I approached it) and as an examination of the fluid nature of identity in America.
Irish American - NOT African American.......2003-05-03
Michael Morris Healy, an Irish immigrant, arrives in the United States around 1815 and establishes a plantation near Macon, Georgia. Healy and his mulatto common-law wife, Eliza Clark Healy, have 10 children. All of the children are sent North to be educated, baptized as Catholics, and leave any social disabilities of Georgia behind them. The children achieve great success as Irish-Americans:
James Augustine Healy became Bishop of Portland, Maine
Patrick Francis Healy became the rector then President of Georgetown University (1873-1881).
Michael Morris Healy, Jr. joined the United States Revenue Cutter Service, becoming a celebrated sea captain, the sole representative of the U.S. government in the vast reaches of Alaska.
Alexander Sherwood Healy also became a priest, director of the seminary in Troy, New York and rector of the Cathedral in Boston
Three sisters became nuns, one a Mother Superior.
It must be emphasized that the Healy offspring were accepted as Irish American and "white" (whatever that means). The positions they obtained could not have been theirs if they had been black or even dark-skinned. Many other "white" people who knew about the Healys' mixed-race origins accepted them as Irish-Americans. Are the Healys therefore entitled to be counted among the ranks of Irish-Americans and included in Irish-American history? YES! The family was IRISH-AMERICAN, not "African American." There was nothing "African" about them.
The Healy family's achievements do not show what "blacks" could do in the 19th century because they were NOT BLACK.
O'Toole's racist devotion to the "one drop" myth blinds him to racial reality in the 19th century. He assumes that the "one drop" myth was law and universally accepted by "whites." It wasn't. Any research into racial classification laws in the 19th century would have shown him that various degrees of "negro blood" were accepted into the "white race," even in the Deep South. Also, the combination of a person's looks and the reputation he had established were all taken into consideration in determining whether one was "white" or not. It is obvious that the Healy family siblings succeeded in establishing themselves as second-generation Irish Americans. O'Toole cannot bear this and insists that the Healy siblings were really "African Americans." He also calls their mother, Eliza, an "African American" even though her ancestry was at least half European.
O'Toole assumes that all "whites" believed in "mulatto inferiority" or the doctrine that mixed-race people are biologically inferior to BOTH or ALL "pure" parental groups. He is too ignorant to understand that this doctrine was created as a defense of slavery by pro-slavery intellectuals who wanted to counter the Northern anti-slavery argument that, if slavery is justified on the basis of "race," then "white" slaves should be automatically free because the negro racial "taint" had been effectively bred out of the line. Lawrence Tenzer explains the origins of this doctrine very well in his book The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War: A New Look at the Slavery Issue. O'Toole would do well to sit at Tenzer's feet and learn something. O'Toole follows the usual liberal excuse of claiming that "society" defined the Healy family as "black," but expresses wonderment at the fact that "whites" who knew about the Healys' mixed ancestry still treated them as "white." O'Toole is amazed that establishing a "white" identity was so easy for the Healys. Could it be because they WERE white, despite their "drop" of "black blood"?
Captain Healy married Mary Ann Roach, herself the daughter of Irish immigrants. One of the sisters who married and produced a large family also married a fellow Irish-American. The Healys were practicing endogamy, not "interracial" marriage:
Captain Michael Healy repeatedly referred to white settlers [in Alaska] as "our people.". His teenage son Fred, who accompanied his father on a voyage in 1883, scratched his name into a rock on a remote island above the Arctic Circle, proudly telling his diary that he was the first "white boy" to do so.
The Healy family saga belongs with the history of IRISH-AMERICANS.
The Survival of Bigotry.......2003-04-26
The large, extremely intelligent, and admirable Healy family is treated badly by an author who doubts the sincerity of vocations and religion in general. Far from "passing for white," the Healy brothers suffered double persecution; by birth they were despised as both Irish and African, and by religion they were despised as Catholic in a virulantly anti-Catholic America. They were illegitimate according to American laws, though they were legitimate in a Europe that accepted the interracial marriage of their parents. Patrick Healy became a Jesuit not to "pass for white," but out of love. He became President of Georgetown University. James and Sherwood Healy became secular priests, and James died Bishop of Portland, Maine. This author is as narrow-minded as 19th c. "Know Nothing" Nativists in his attitude towards truly good people.
So That's Where These Ideas are Coming From!.......2003-02-09
This book opened my eyes to what's been going on even in the 21st century in this country. I've been experiencing something of a struggle like that family's my entire life, but it took reading about it during that particular period in history to understand where today's societal attitudes are coming from. Nothing has changed. Blacks still treat you like you're trying to "pass for white" just by becoming a nun or a monk. And that explains all the racial problems, tensions, and attempted violence that goes with it; black society's resistance to the religious orders has taken even more of a nasty turn in the last century than in the one before it.
Please publish this book in paperback.......2003-01-25
The kind press of UMass sells this brilliant book for thirty dollars! Race, Faith, and our society are examined in this absolutely engrossing piece of non-fiction. O'Toole may have edged out Steve Almond for the best B.C. book of the year. Norton? PGW?, holler!
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Title: Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920.(Book Review)
Author: Diane Batts Morrow
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