Approaches and Strategies to Learn and Improve Writing APA Style

Abstract

APA (American Psychological Association) is the most well known and used to cite sources within the behavioral and social sciences. Therefore, students often struggle to write in APA Style and they commonly made errors and mistakes. Besides that, both instructors and students having problems to teach and learn APA Style. Due to that, the objective of this study is to discovered the learning patterns in order to find approaches and strategies to learn APA Style, address the main areas of concern with problematic in student writing and present most common grammatical APA errors made by authors. The quantitative methods where multiple cases study approach is adopted; three articles were selected in order to support this study. One of the significant findings is the learning pattern from task performances analysis. The paper discusses the issues related to the problem in writing with APA Style. The paper's findings and discovery are significant in highlighting approaches and strategies, which needed to be addressed to emphasize student writing with APA style in order to avoid common APA Style mistakes made by students when write and publish manuscript.