Tables and figures are where a great many otherwise-finished dissertations get sent back. Almost never because the data are wrong. They come back because the table was drawn rather than built — gridlines everywhere, a title bolded instead of italicized, notes in the wrong order, a header row that vanishes when the table breaks across a page.
Every table and every figure in APA 7 is assembled from the same small set of parts, in the same order, every single time. A correlation matrix, a demographic summary, a thematic coding table, a bar chart, a conceptual model — same anatomy underneath. Learn it once and you can build anything.
This kit teaches the anatomy, then the Word technique, then the mistakes that come back marked.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Tables & Figures That Pass (PDF guide)
The five-part anatomy, how to make Word cooperate, and the errors I correct most often
Ten worked building blocks (Word): real, correctly built APA 7 tables and figures you can adapt to your own data
An honest note: if your tables already repeat their header rows, hold their formatting through a page break, and order their notes correctly, you likely do not need this.
Tables and figures are where a great many otherwise-finished dissertations get sent back. Almost never because the data are wrong. They come back because the table was drawn rather than built — gridlines everywhere, a title bolded instead of italicized, notes in the wrong order, a header row that vanishes when the table breaks across a page.
Every table and every figure in APA 7 is assembled from the same small set of parts, in the same order, every single time. A correlation matrix, a demographic summary, a thematic coding table, a bar chart, a conceptual model — same anatomy underneath. Learn it once and you can build anything.
This kit teaches the anatomy, then the Word technique, then the mistakes that come back marked.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Tables & Figures That Pass (PDF guide)
The five-part anatomy, how to make Word cooperate, and the errors I correct most often
Ten worked building blocks (Word): real, correctly built APA 7 tables and figures you can adapt to your own data
An honest note: if your tables already repeat their header rows, hold their formatting through a page break, and order their notes correctly, you likely do not need this.