Academic Writer
The multidisciplinary, institution-wide APA style writing platform that combines self-paced learning and is aligned with the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.), empowering students to master scholarly writing and research.
Overview
Academic Writer is designed to support your institutional goals of helping students to develop long-lasting writing skills. Developed by the creators of APA Style®, this powerful resource guides users who have questions about how to conduct research, structure their papers, and format what they write. Academic Writer’s self-paced learning modules, reference building tools, and guided writing center support libraries and writing centers to facilitate academic success by training students to build a strong writing foundation.
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Availability
Academic Writer is available as an annual subscription to academic institutions. For personal access, explore our direct access options.
Coverage
Ensure students across a broad spectrum of disciplines and subjects are prepared for the rigors of scholarly writing:
The Learning Center includes a rich assortment of instructional tools that enable students to design their own approach to mastering academic writing and APA Style, allowing instructors to focus on teaching their core discipline.
- Quick Guides: Brief, interactive lessons covering specific guidelines for APA Style academic writing, including reference and page formatting, avoiding bias in writing, and more
- Summative Assessments: Low-stakes quizzes designed to gauge student mastery of APA Style concepts
- Tutorials: In-depth interactive lessons on topics such as avoiding plagiarism, conducting experimental research, finding sources for papers, and more
- Samples: Dozens of sample tables, figures, and full papers, along with more than 150 sample references
- Quick links to the Publication Manual: Easy access to specific guidelines and relevant texts from sections of the Publication Manual
The Reference Center allows students to create and manage references in APA Style by using the guided reference generator and importing existing files.
- Reference tagging: Students can create their own tags to organize and easily search their references
- New reference types: Additions from the Publication Manual (7th ed.) include Instagram photos, infographics, recorded webinars, anthologies, legal materials, and more
- Manage references: Enter and store references using an unrivaled set of customized forms for more than 120 reference types, all of which were created by APA experts for strict adherence to the seventh edition guidelines of APA Style
The heart of Academic Writer, the Writing Center helps bring together everything students have learned about the scholarly writing process with the creation of a research paper or article.
- Templates: Structured templates for the most common types of research papers guide students through proper formatting of title pages, fonts, margins, and more
- Collaboration: Students can collaborate on group papers, and educators can monitor and comment on students’ progress
- Resource pane: This unique tool conveniently pinned to the bottom of the writing space provides easy access for citing sources and adding references, tables and figures, appendices, and footnotes
- Research tools: Specially created tools assist students in developing, planning, and tracking their research
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