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Did you know that APA 7 has strict rules around copyright attribution for tables and figures that appear in your manuscript? This applies anytime you reproduce or adapt a table, figure, or image from another source.

If you’ve ever copied a citation straight from ResearchGate and dropped it into your APA reference list… this post might be for you.

In many of the quantitative dissertations I’ve edited, clients often get confused about their variables: to capitalize or not to capitalize? APA actually makes this pretty straightforward...

APA 7 can sometimes be tricky—while there exists a detailed manual that answers many questions, some scenarios just don’t have straightforward answers. In this series, I cover tricky APA encounters so that you can know how to approach them.

Every so often, a client reaches out with a message that starts something like: “My dissertation is basically done—can you do a quick APA check?” I always smile when I read these messages, because I know what’s coming next. My first step in any APA review is to run a reference report. This report compares in-text citations with reference entries and catches the mismatches, omissions, and formatting inconsistencies that inevitably sneak in.

I'm excited to share a powerful new report from the Partnership for College Completion (PCC) that I had the opportunity to copyedit! The PCC is a Chicago-based policy organization committed to advancing equity in higher education at both the institution and state levels. The report demonstrates how access to family wealth (such as investments, business revenue, retirement savings, real estate, inheritance, savings accounts, etc.) shapes student economic need in a larger, more