Happy Valentine's Day!

   

The word of the day is love. We love helping people write with clarity and concision. We love debating fine points of grammar and usage. And, we love that, more than 5 years later, you continue to ask us new and interesting questions about APA Style points, keeping us current and keeping us on our toes!

Without APA Style, we wouldn’t be here, sharing this forum with you. With that in mind, and in honor of the day, we’ve each written a heartfelt haiku: odes to our favorite aspects of APA Style.

	For Students Who Ask Why      Why APA Style?      Precision and clarity      —for those that follow
Anne Breitenbach

	Author–Date Format      Ideas to text      “From whom and when?” I wonder      Author–date replies
David Becker

	The Header      Oh, running header      Where would I be without you?      Lost amongst pages
Katie Ten Hagen

	Redundancy      They were both alike      Loved as one and the same, but      Cut for concision.
Mary Lynn Skutley

	Reference citations      Author, date, title, and source      Pathways to knowledge
Chelsea Lee

	(a), (b), and (c)      letters in series      help with parallel structure      and readers thank you
Timothy McAdoo

Valentine's Day card image source: Peter-J-Pann, "valentine hat pcard"