Question

List one reason the current APA Manual (Section 4) states you should avoid wordiness.

Although there is no minimum or maximum sentence length in APA style, what is typically considered too long as explicitly stated in Section 4 of the APA Manual?

What three types of articles report primary (original) research as covered in Section 1 of the APA Manual?

How would you include the following authors in an in-text narrative citation given they published an article together in 2018? Johannes Bohannon Marge Smith

Answer 1

1. Reason- Most readers, however, recognize the ploy that either the writer has not very well developed the idea or they have been assigned more word limit than they have for writing. Writers who rely on verbosity lose credibility with their readers.

2. Length- As a rule "less is more." If a paper is too long :-

1. shorten it by stating points clearly and directly,
2. confining the discussion to the specific problem under investigation,
3. deleting or combining data displays,
4. eliminating repetition across sections,
5. writing in the active voice..
6. At times, a paper may need to be divided into two or more papers, each with a more specific focus.
7. Journals differ in average length of articles published

3. Three types of articles that report primary research are-

• Empirical Studies
• Literature Review, and,
• Theoretical Articles

4. In-test narratove citation-

.... (Bohannon & Smith, 2018).

Bohannon and Smith (2018), found.......