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everything!! so helpful since my return to school after 30+ years

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Christine
Christine
Student

it is an amazing app and has cut down my time on the computer in half!!!

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Christine H.
Christine H.

This program is awesome and takes the struggles out of writing papers by making citations, references, and formatting simple! I'm a huge fan!

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Christine P.
Christine P.
Student

I like that sometimes i can add my sources with doi and the help with formating is nice

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Christopher O.
Christopher O.
Student

I do not know what I would have done without PERRLA during my Master's and Doctoral journey. If you don't have this software, get it! I used PERRLA to format my 200+ page dissertation. PERRLA is one of the best programs out there.

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Christopher Rengel
Christopher Rengel
Student

It makes quick work of using references correctly!

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Christy B.
Christy B.
Student

It's helpful

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Christy C.
Christy C.

It helps so much with formatting and refrences. It also automatically saves your work.

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Cindy B.
Cindy B.
Student

Super easy to use - my only suggestion is to allow both types of citations including narriative.

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Cindy S.
Cindy S.
Student

This has been an absolute life saver for my Master's program. I can focus on just writing...instead of all the other stuff. Thank you!

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Cody J.
Cody J.
Student

Stupendous customer service when I have an issue. I love how easy it makes formatting my papers since I have so little time to be arguing with my word processing software the way it thinks it knows better for how I want things. Super easy to use, fabulous job formatting into what I need.

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Crystal Blomgren
Crystal Blomgren
Student

It houses all my work in one place

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Crystal S.
Crystal S.
Student

Love this makes creating papers so much easier

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Crystal W.
Crystal W.
Student

You guys have changed my life for the better! Thank you!

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Cynthia V.
Cynthia V.
Student

PERRLA is literally awesome

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Daizha D.
Daizha D.
Student

I started my second masters when I was 60 years old. This one was online and there was MUCH to learn. Using Perrla took the stress away when it came to papers and that was a big plus. Then I just had to deal with some of the technology, which my 15 year could mostly help with! We all remember the stress of writing up Bibliographies etc. Perrla took the stress out of every period, every space, every comma. What a gift! Also, their customer service/help was personal, helpful and outstanding- I really felt like I had another person standing there with me. Plus, they were open to suggestions for change- how cool! I cannot recommend this enough. It is very easy to lose points for errors in formatting references- but not with Perrla. Also, I had a professor that was grading my paper based on APA 6, because Perrla had the most up to date APA 7 for me to choose from I was able to challenge that professor and he discovered he was grading everybody's paper incorrectly, I was the only one who got my points back because I did my research and I knew I was in the right. Thank you Perrla, a thousand times, my only sadness in graduating is I won't need you anymore! It's been a great relationship!

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Dana
Dana
Student

Makes formatting papers a breeze

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Daniel G.
Daniel G.
Student

Simple and Easy to use. Very helpful

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Daniel L.
Daniel L.
Student

PERRLA is such a help when writing papers and writing discussion posts. Not having to worry if my papers are properly formatted is invaluable.

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Daniellea N.
Daniellea N.
Student

Perla is such a help when writing papers and writing discussion posts. Not having to worry if my papers are properly formatted is invaluable.

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Daniellea N.
Daniellea N.

Get It! I've used PERRLA over my entire undergrad and MBA. Great Value for the return.

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Danielle G.
Danielle G.
Student

So extremely easy to use.

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Darien V.
Darien V.
Student

PERRLA has really helped me going back to college! It's an excellent program and very easy to use!

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Darla C.
Darla C.
Student

I would be lost writing references in APA format without PERRLA. I can also click on a previous reference and add it to my next paper. It has saved me so much time. The spacing on title pages, the placement of headers, things like that that I would perseverate over if I had to do it myself.

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Darla L.
Darla L.

I first started using PERRLA back in 2013...I was an educator going back to school to get my Master's degree. Writing papers again – it had been years since I had done it. Using [PERRLA] it saved hours and hours and hours of time! As grad work, I had papers with 20 and 30 references, the ability to open Word and PERRLA has all your margins set, easy way to upload your references, add them to your bibliography. Insanely easy!...Use PERRLA, it's a 100% worth it!...It will literally save you hours and hours of time! If it was a $500 service, I'd still pay for it.

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Dave G.
Dave G.
Student

Hi. My name is Dave and I highly recommend PERRLA. I used it all the way through grad school and it saved me countless hours on citations and bibliography and formatting. It handles all those things so seamlessly. It allowed me to just focus on writing and the content and, really, the important stuff I was working on learning.

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Dave H.
Dave H.
Student

It makes collecting and citing references concise and efficient. It also does well in helping me draw on an ever-increasing library of resources as I advance in my coursework.

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David
David
Student

Works excellent and makes my life a lot easier.

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David G.
David G.
Student

These people are amazing! The effort the tech support put in has been by far the best I have ever received for computer/technical issues. They were very accommodating and helped in any way they could. They even contacted me to help out when the problem wasn't theirs to fix. Unbelievable is an understatement.

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David Hill
David Hill
Student

Good Product for a doctoral student

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David M.
David M.
Student

I have used this program since LPN school in 2002. It is great for setting up in APA, and I have it on a couple of computers, including my desktop and laptop.

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Dawn
Dawn
Student

Great tool for my online classes!!

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Dawn A.
Dawn A.
Student

The references! That has saved me so much time and effort in my DBA program.

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Dean
Dean
Student

I have been a Perrla member for several years now and I absolutely love the services. So very helpful and thorough. I enjoy the newsletters most, believe it or not. I can honestly say that this platform has improved my writing skills and dare I say, helped me to successfully achieve my MA. Working on my PhD now and would not do it without the help of the Perrla team!

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Deanna Synowiec
Deanna Synowiec
Student

Hi. My name's Deb and I recommend PERRLA software. It's very easy to use and super user-friendly. I wouldn't have gotten through Nursing school without it. Thanks, PERRLA.

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Deb B.
Deb B.
Student, Nursing

Really helps take away stress of formatting paper

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Debbie S.
Debbie S.
Student

Such a great tool! It makes formatting my papers easy and archives them for future review or use. I used it while working on my Master's in nursing, and now I am using it in my doctoral program.

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Deborah H.
Deborah H.
Student

Very helpful for people who have been out of school for years.

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Dee M.
Dee M.
Student

It is so easy to use and extremely helpful apa and adding references.

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Dena C.
Dena C.
Student

The best tool I've discovered EVER

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Denice H.
Denice H.

Very easy to use program I have had no isssue with paper formatting since starting PERRLA

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Denise K.
Denise K.
Student

Great platform

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Derek R.
Derek R.

Very organized and step by step instructions

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Destanee L.
Destanee L.
Student

This program is amazing and worth every penny spent. It ensures accuracy and keeps your gammer on track. They also graciously support the armed serves by providing a discount. I would recommend this program every time.

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detsgt
detsgt
Student

I am still learning to use this but it has helped in my courses.

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Diane R.
Diane R.
Student

Saves me so much time on building a reference list. My grades for APA are always high.

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Dianna
Dianna
Student

Great for putting your references in alphabetic order and everything else in order

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Donald W.
Donald W.
Student

I love PERRLA!

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Donna H.
Donna H.
Student

PERRLA has been a game-changer; it has made me feel comfortable with citations and references. It has formatted it for me and relieved the stress of failing.

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Donna H.
Donna H.
Student

I am a student, old student, who purchased PERRLA for help with my APA..it was pretty incredible & made it to where I could focus on doing my paper instead of worrying about the APA format...I think if you want to make a wise decision, and money well spent that, for the APA format at least, PERRLA was exceptional.

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Don V.
Don V.
Student

I have been using PERLA for over a decade, and it has consistently been an excellent product that has supported my academic work for many years.

What continues to stand out is their customer service. When I recently reached out for assistance, Rachael responded quickly and provided outstanding support. The interaction was professional, responsive, and genuinely helpful.

Equally important, it was refreshing to communicate with a real person who was attentive and engaged rather than an automated system. That level of responsiveness and human support makes a real difference.

After more than ten years using PERLA, I can confidently say both the product and the support behind it are exceptional. Highly recommended.

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Dr. James Starks
Dr. James Starks
Student

It saves me time with my busy schedule

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Dushawn P.
Dushawn P.
Student

As always you rock!! I wish it was easier to copy and paste my references though. Thanks Luvs!!

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Elise E.
Elise E.
Student

It's the best program for reference management

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Elizabeth B.
Elizabeth B.
Student

APA for websites does not appear to function properly

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Elizabeth F.
Elizabeth F.
Student

So helpful in formatting a professional paper

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Elizabeth G.
Elizabeth G.

Perrla is great it has made my grad school experience much better. Perrla takes care of my APA and all my citations. If i have a problem I send a message and a real person gets back to me within the day.

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Elizabeth Gilberg
Elizabeth Gilberg
Student

Hey. My name's Elizabeth Louis and excuse my mess in the background. As you can see, I'm an avid reader. I actually have two graduate degrees, and I'm a two-time published author, and I can't speak highly enough about PERRLA. I actually tell all of my clients, I tell all of my fellow students about the power of PERRLA. I actually found PERRLA in 2016. My professor, when I got my first graduate degree, encouraged it, and it's a game-changer. You save so much time with PERRLA. I'm so grateful for it. I actually wrote both my books through PERRLA as well because I needed to use citations. I cannot encourage PERRLA enough. It will drastically be a game-changer for you. It will collapse time. It will save time and I love the library feature. I love writing, it's what I do for a living, and I can tell you that having that aggregation of the library always grow has been such a time-saver because, let's say I used a source that I used five years ago or three years ago or six months ago, it's still there. I don't have to do the work twice. I mean, this is about working smart and this is what PERRLA allows you to do because you optimize time, you save time by only have to do it once, AND, they have this feature where you put in the link or you can put in the ISBN number and it's like BING, there it is. It's magical. It's amazing. You cannot afford not to have this software if you are a grad student or an undergrad student. If you're in Psychology, if you're in History, you have to have this software. It will change your life. And, plus, you won't get points taken off for the formatting to be wrong. That's awesome. I've gone through two graduate degrees. I'm finishing my second one and I have a 4.0. In my first one, I graduated with a 4.0. In my second degree, I have a 4.0 right now and I am actually constantly being asked to be in the writing workshop rooms to help people write to my degree and format to my degree because I'm always doing it correctly. I do it through PERRLA like, I've never set up on my own paper. I use PERRLA and it's awesome. so, go get it. It's amazing. I've rambled enough. I hope you get it. I cannot speak highly enough about PERRLA. It's really amazing. It's a game-changer and I hope you get the software because it's awesome. Have a good one.

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Elizabeth L.
Elizabeth L.
Graduate student & Author

My name's Elizabeth and I'm a doctoral student and university instructor. PERRLA is essential to my workflow as both a student and a teacher. I'm always writing papers and homework assignments or scholarly literature for publication. PERRLA helps me do all of it, so I can format and cite my work accurately and efficiently. Here are some of my favorite features: PERRLA can find almost any scholarly article from any database with just its DOI or Author & Title.

It formats references and citations effortlessly and instantly, adding them to my documents and saving me a lot of time. It allows me to keep my focus and time where it belongs... on my writing quality. PERRLA saves every reference I've ever used in my personal reference library. That's really helpful because I can reuse those references in subsequent work with a single click of the mouse.

If you're writing a monster paper like a dissertation or a thirty-page literature review, having immediate access to all those references in a massive convenience. I have more than 400 unique items in my reference library, and I add more every day, but PERRLA never slows down, loses my references, or fails to deliver them when I search my library.

PERRLA is great at finding and formatting references and citations, but another of its features is that it actually formats the paper itself. So, I don't have to fuss with time-consuming finicky formatting of running heads, title pages, abstracts, tables of contents, and heading styles. You tell PERRLA the title of your paper and its due date, click the mouse, and there's a perfectly formatted template, ready for you to write.

This is the real blessing of PERRLA, and I say this as a student and a teacher, it takes care of the tedious minutia associated with conformance to the APA or MLA style guide and allows you to focus on your writing. As a teacher, I'd far rather have my students spend their time on writing quality than measuring margins and tabs and remembering what parts of a reference are italicized or capitalized.

An added benefit is that the more papers you write with PERRLA, the more you learn what a correctly formatted paper and reference should look like. So, your referencing skills will actually improve, even though formatting is handled by PERRLA...

Considering the amount of time and hassle it saves, it's one of the best bargains around - whether you're just getting started on your Associates degree or you're slogging through your PhD. Thanks for listening and happy writing. I hope you get an "A" on every assignment.

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Elizabeth R.
Elizabeth R.
Doctoral Student & Faculty

Been using PERRLA for a long time. It is an extremely helpful tool in this busy grad student's life

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Elizabeth V.
Elizabeth V.
Student

PERRLA has been a great tool that has helped me tremendously throughout this semester.

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Emily A.
Emily A.
Student

it helps so much and saves me so much time

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Emily L.
Emily L.

Great program. Real time-saver and has improved my APA scores.

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Emily Y.
Emily Y.
Student

Hey. My name is Emma Broussard and I'm a nurse practitioner in central Texas. I recommend PERRLA for all things university... grad school, undergrad. PERRLA was a game-changer when I was finishing nurse practitioner's school. I was never dinged for assignments that were missing citations or were incorrect. It's just a little bit of money and will make a huge difference. It really attributed to my quality of life during school because I was able to focus less on the nuances and more on the content. Thanks a lot.

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Emma B.
Emma B.
Student

everything! a game changer for a working professional going back to school!

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Eoin
Eoin
Student

It’s makes writing papers so much easier, especially the help with references

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Eric H.
Eric H.

PERRLA has been a game changer for this adult student returning to school! You've made writing high-quality papers a breeze.

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Erin G.
Erin G.
Student

So, PERRLA has made my life about 1,000 times easier as a graduate student studying to be a Nurse Practitioner. I can focus on the classwork instead of trying to make sure all my APA formatting and references are correct. Thank you, PERRLA.

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Erin R.
Erin R.
Graduate Student

Very helpful.

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Fabiola S.
Fabiola S.
Student

I have already mentioned PERRLA to my peers

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Franklin D.
Franklin D.
Student

This has saved me so many times! Grateful for such a helpful partner to go back to school with!

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Gabrielle C.
Gabrielle C.

Easy to navigate. Helpful when creating writing assignments. Helpful editing. elps with creating and finding references.

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Gai J.
Gai J.
Student

I love that it keeps the references to be easily accessed again.

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Gail M.
Gail M.
Student

Great APA formatting and assistance with references.

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Gail O.
Gail O.

This program is a GOD SEND LIFE SAVER!! I don't know I would be surviving in today's fast paced world without it! TY! gem NP student

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Geminis P.
Geminis P.
Student

I can't say enough good things about PERRLA. It's changed my life. I would spend at least an hour on each paper trying to format all the things that PERRLA does for me and now I can do it in a snap of a finger...So, get it. It's definitely worth the money.

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Gemma
Gemma
Student

I’m not a student, I’m a writer. I use PERRLA to write my novels and non-fiction because of the ease of use. Everything that I need is there. However, I’m thinking there should be an option between student and professional for people like me.

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Germaine M.
Germaine M.
Student

PERRLA has been instrumental in my success in undergraduate and now graduate school. I appreciate the ease of use as compared with other citation manager applications. I was able to begin writing quickly and easily with PERRLA. It is a powerful tool for managing references, formatting papers and discussion posts, and even for pre-writing work such as outlines. I can write confidently with PERRLA. Adding to their appeal, their customer service is second to none. You won't regret purchasing this product.

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Ginger G.
Ginger G.
Student

Helps with references

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Ginger V.
Ginger V.
Student

Works great to help with APA

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Ginger W.
Ginger W.
Student

Such a great resource for college courses. Easy to navigate, the online option is great when using perrla on other workspaces.

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Gladis R.
Gladis R.

it is the best

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Gladys A.
Gladys A.
Student

PERRLA is a must!

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Gloria E.
Gloria E.
Student

It has helped me tremendously with formatting my papers and with citations.

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Grace D.
Grace D.
Student

This is a great program. No need to spend countless hours looking up APA or MLA rules, looking up examples, and typing in all the references and citations. This program formats the paper perfectly with options like a Title page, Table of Contents, and Abstract page.

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Gregory R.
Gregory R.
Student

Very helpful when writing papers, for better clarrification

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Griselda U.
Griselda U.
Student

PERRLA makes using APA format very easy for someone who has been out of school for a long time.

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Haley R.
Haley R.
Student

Using PERRLA takes the stress of making sure my paper is in the correct format so I can focus on the content I am writing.

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Hannah
Hannah
Student

PERRLA helps with formatting and removes the stress and decreases time spent on formating alone.

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Hasayali M.
Hasayali M.
Student

This has been such a wonderful tool!!

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Hayley H.
Hayley H.
Student

As a working professional with several competing priorities, PERRLA has helped me navigate competing priorities. PERRLA makes research papers and discussion posts easier to complete by searching out the reference and configuring new references, as well a adding a reference page and in-text citations. This has significantly reduced my stress.

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Heat
Heat
Student

The Reference library I am building and the ability to access it. I also love the help in creating and placing citations correctly.

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Heather
Heather
Student

This software is simply awesome! After 14 years of not writing papers I went back to writing papers with ease and formatting them like a pro! You will not be disappointed!

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Heather H.
Heather H.
Student

Not only had I never done anything in APA style, it was actually new to me because I had been out of school for so long. PERRLA saved me tons of time and it made sure that my papers were perfect every time. It is well worth the money.

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Heather J.
Heather J.
Student & Faculty

Makes my homework so much easier.

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Heather J.
Heather J.
Student

The ability to quickly and easily format papers in APA and add the necessary references and citations is invaluable!!

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Heather M.
Heather M.

nearly perfect citation generator, APA consistent Perrla makes me more efficient and excellent at writing my papers.

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Heather S.
Heather S.

great program

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Heidi H.
Heidi H.

I am almost 50-years old. I wanted to let some of you seasoned students that using PERRLA is great! I haven't had to APA since almost 20 years ago. PERRLA allows you to apply your references, update your pages for you, and go back to your references...It's real worth it!

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Helen C.
Helen C.
Student

I LOVE IT MAKES MY WORK EASIRE WRITTIMG IN APA STYLE

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Hellen W.
Hellen W.

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