"It's egregious," said John Foubert, an associate professor of education at Oklahoma State University, who bought two copies of the book - one for his office and one for home - when it was released in July. "These are the standards for how we write our manuscripts and how our students write their papers .... The irony is so thick."
The corrections include four pages of "nonsignificant typographical errors" and five pages correcting errors in content and problems with sample papers in the book. The APA also released four corrected sample papers in their entireties. One correction is "Page 88 - Change last line under 'Exception' to read 'Spacing twice after punctuation marks at the end of a sentence aids readers of draft manuscripts.' " Another is "Page 64 - First paragraph, line 2, insert a comma after 'e.g.' " --Inside HIgher Ed
Correcting a Style Guide
I don't use APA style, but this article about nine pages of corrections to the APA style manual caught my eye.
This just in: APA issues corrected style guide.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/28/qt/apa_will_provide_corrected_version_of_style_guide
I only care because I am using it for my thesis! (And issuing an error-laden book makes me think there's a job for me somewhere...).