APA Writing Style
This principle emphasizes that writing should be straightforward and understandable.
What is clarity?
In APA Style, this voice is preferred for most writing because it promotes clarity.
What is active voice?
APA suggests this process to check for clarity and effectiveness in your writing after completing a draft.
What is proofreading or reviewing?
APA advises writers to avoid this type of sentence, which contains two or more independent clauses without proper punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
Writers should use these types of terms to avoid vagueness or misinterpretation.
What are specific terms?
This type of list ensures that items are grammatically parallel to each other.
What is a parallel list?
This pronoun is recommended in APA Style for referring to a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
What is the singular "they"?
This method involves reading your paper aloud to identify awkward phrasing or errors.
What is reading aloud?
To ensure variety and maintain interest, APA recommends varying this element of sentence structure.
What is sentence length?
When describing research, this tense is recommended for discussing procedures or methods already completed.
What is the past tense?
This term refers to describing nonhuman things as performing human actions, which APA discourages.
What is anthropomorphism?
This verb tense is used to describe methods and results in APA Style.
What is past tense?
APA recommends seeking feedback from these individuals to gain an objective perspective on your writing.
What are peers or colleagues?
Writers should avoid these two extremes in sentence length for clarity and readability
What are overly long sentences and sentence fragments?
This tense is generally used when discussing the results of an analysis or conclusions drawn.
What is the present tense?
This writing balances continuity and flow with conciseness and clarity.
What is effective scholarly writing.
This is the rule for subject-verb agreement when the subject is a collective noun.
What is treating the subject as singular unless context dictates otherwise?
This writing strategy involves outlining your key ideas before drafting to improve organization.
What is creating an outline?
This type of clause is recommended to clarify relationships between ideas in a sentence.
What is a subordinate clause?
APA recommends ensuring that all comparisons are this, meaning they clearly identify both items being compared.
What is parallel?
APA recommends this approach when deciding between using jargon or simpler terms.
What is using simpler terms unless the jargon is widely understood by the audience?
This voice may be used sparingly in APA writing, particularly when emphasizing the recipient of an action rather than the actor.
What is the passive voice?
To strengthen your writing, APA advises focusing on one of these aspects, such as grammar or tone, during each revision pass.
What is a specific element of writing?
APA suggests this strategy to improve readability when presenting complex ideas in writing.
What is breaking the information into multiple sentences?
This quality of writing refers to using precise terms that directly match the data, evidence, or ideas presented.
What is accuracy?