Overall writing with style is an easy read szuchman uses a conversational style and provides numerous helpful examples and she highlights key points in reminder boxes the text can be used as an effective supplement to the apa manual particularly early in students training. In writing with style sixth edition author lenore t szuchman quickly and succinctly provides the basics of style presented by the sixth edition of the apas publication manual dr szuchmans. Like many other writing styles apa style dictates that numbers 10 or above be written in arabic numerals numbers below that such as one through nine should be written out however when percentages come into play regardless of the number it should be written as an arabic numeral and directly followed by the percent sign like so 8 also as with so many writing rules there is an . Writing with style apa style made easy third edition by lenore t szuchman 2005 wadsworth 151 pages reviewed by kristi s multhaup department of psychology davidson co llege davidson