A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations Chicago Style for students and researchers /

When Kate Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong...

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Main Author: Turabian, Kate L.,
Other Authors: Booth, Wayne C.,, Colomb, Gregory G.,, Williams, Joseph M.,, Bizup, Joseph, 1966-, FitzGerald, William T.,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Physical Description: xv, 462 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition: 9th edition /
Series: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.
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Online Access: e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • A note to students
  • Preface.
  • Part I.
  • Research and writing /
  • Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T. FitzGerald:
  • 1.
  • What research is and how researchers think about it:
  • What research is ;
  • How researchers think about their aims ;
  • Conversing with your readers
  • 2.
  • Defining a project: topic, question, problem, working hypothesis:
  • Find a question in your topic ;
  • Understanding research problems ;
  • Propose a working hypothesis ;
  • Build a storyboard to plan and guide your work ;
  • Join or organize a writing group
  • 3.
  • Finding useful sources:
  • Three kinds of sources and their uses ;
  • Search for sources systematically ;
  • Evaluate sources for relevance and reliability ;
  • Look beyond the usual kinds of references ;
  • Record your sources fully, accurately, and appropriately
  • 4.
  • Engaging your sources:
  • Read generously to understand, then critically to engage ;
  • Take notes systematically ;
  • Take useful notes ;
  • Review your progress ;
  • Manage moments of normal anxiety
  • 5.
  • Constructing your argument:
  • What a research argument is and is not ;
  • Build your argument around answers to readers' questions ;
  • Turn your working hypothesis into a claim ;
  • Assemble the elements of your argument ;
  • Prefer arguments based on evidence to arguments based on warrants ;
  • Assemble an argument
  • 6.
  • Planning a first draft:
  • Avoid unhelpful plans ;
  • Create a plan that meets your readers' needs ;
  • File away leftovers.
  • 7.
  • Drafting your paper:
  • Draft in the way that feels most comfortable ;
  • Develop effective writing habits ;
  • Keep yourself on track through headings and key terms ;
  • Quote, paraphrase, and summarize appropriately ;
  • Integrate quotations into your text ;
  • Use footnotes and endnotes judiciously ;
  • Sow how complex or detailed evidence is relevant ;
  • Be open to surprises ;
  • Guard against inadvertent plagiarism ;
  • Guard against inappropriate assistance ;
  • Work through chronic procrastination and writer's block
  • 8.
  • Presenting evidence in tables and figures:
  • Choose verbal or visual representations of your data ;
  • Choose the most effective graphic ;
  • Design tables and figures ;
  • Communicate data ethically
  • 9.
  • Revising your draft:
  • Check for blind spots in your argument ;
  • Check your introduction, conclusion, and claim ;
  • Make sure the body of your report is coherent ;
  • Check your paragraphs ;
  • Let your draft cool, then rephrase it
  • 10.
  • Writing your final introduction and conclusion:
  • Draft your final introduction ;
  • Draft your final conclusion ;
  • Write your title last
  • 11.
  • Revising sentences:
  • Focus on the first seven of eight words of a sentence ;
  • Diagnose what you read ;
  • Choose the right word ;
  • Polish it up ;
  • Give it up and turn it in
  • 12.
  • Learning from comments on your paper:
  • Two kinds of feedback: advice and data ;
  • Find general principles in specific comments ;
  • Talk with your reader
  • 13.
  • Presenting research in alternative forums:
  • Plan your oral presentation ;
  • Design your presentation to be listened to ;
  • Plan your poster presentation ;
  • Plan you conference report
  • On the spirit of research.
  • Part II.
  • Source citation :
  • General introduction to citation practices :
  • Reasons for citing your sources ;
  • Requirements of citation ;
  • Two citation styles ;
  • Electronic sources ;
  • Preparation of citations ;
  • Citation management tools
  • Notes-bibliography style: the basic form :
  • Basic patterns ;
  • Bibliographies ;
  • Notes ;
  • Short forms for notes
  • Notes-bibliography style: citing specific types of sources :
  • Books ;
  • Journal articles ;
  • Magazine articles ;
  • Newspaper articles ;
  • Websites, blogs, and social media ;
  • Interviews and personal communications ;
  • Papers, lectures, and manuscript collections ;
  • Older works and sacred works ;
  • Reference works and secondary citations ;
  • Sources in the visual and performing arts ;
  • Public documents
  • Author-date style: the basic form :
  • Basic patterns ;
  • Reference lists ;
  • Parenthetical citations
  • Author-date style: citing specific types of sources :
  • Books ;
  • Journal articles ;
  • Magazine articles ;
  • Newspaper articles ;
  • Websites, blogs, and social media ;
  • Interviews and personal communications ;
  • Papers, lectures, and manuscript collections ;
  • Older works and sacred works ;
  • Reference works and secondary sources ;
  • Sources in the visual and performing arts ;
  • Public documents.
  • Part III.
  • Style :
  • Spelling :
  • Plurals ;
  • Possessives ;
  • Compounds and words formed with prefixes ;
  • Line breaks
  • Punctuation :
  • Periods ;
  • Commas ;
  • Semicolons ;
  • Colons ;
  • Question marks ;
  • Exclamation points ;
  • Hyphens and dashes ;
  • Parentheses and brackets ;
  • Slashes ;
  • Quotation marks ;
  • Apostrophes ;
  • Multiple punctuation marks
  • Names, special terms, and titles of works :
  • Names ;
  • Special terms ;
  • Titles of works
  • Numbers :
  • Words or numerals? ;
  • Plurals and punctuation ;
  • Data systems ;
  • Numbers used outside the text
  • Abbreviations :
  • General principles ;
  • Names and titles ;
  • Geographical terms ;
  • Time and dates ;
  • Units of measure ;
  • Bible and other sacred works ;
  • Abbreviations in citations and other scholarly contexts
  • Quotations :
  • Quoting accurately and avoiding plagiarism ;
  • Incorporating quotations into your text ;
  • Modifying quotations
  • Tables and figures :
  • General issues ;
  • Tables ;
  • Figures
  • Appendix: Paper format and submission :
  • General format requirements ;
  • Format requirements for specific elements ;
  • File preparation and submission requirements.