A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago Style for students and researchers /: Chicago Style for students and researchers. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kate L. Turabian.
• Authors: Turabian, Kate L; Booth, Wayne C; Colomb, Gregory G; Williams, Joseph M; Bizup, Joseph, 1966-; FitzGerald, William T
• Contents: <div class='ch-level-1'>Contents <div class='ch-level-1'>A Note to Students <div class='ch-level-1'>Preface <div class='ch-level-1'>Part I. Research and Writing / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T. FitzGerald <div class='ch-level-2'>Overview of Part I <div class='ch-level-3'>1.1 What Research Is <div class='ch-level-3'>1.2 How Researchers Think about Their Aims <div class='ch-level-3'>1.3 Conversing with Your Readers <div class='ch-level-2'>2. Defining a Project: Topic, Question, Problem, Working Hypothesis <div class='ch-level-3'>2.1 Find a Question in Your Topic <div class='ch-level-3'>2.2 Understanding Research Problems <div class='ch-level-3'>2.3 Propose a Working Hypothesis <div class='ch-level-3'>2.4 Build a Storyboard to Plan and Guide Your Work <div class='ch-level-3'>2.5 Join or Organize a Writing Group <div class='ch-level-2'>3. Finding Useful Sources <div class='ch-level-3'>3.1 Three Kinds of Sources and Their Uses <div class='ch-level-3'>3.2 Search for Sources Systematically <div class='ch-level-3'>3.3 Evaluate Sources for Relevance and Reliability <div class='ch-level-3'>3.5 Record Your Sources Fully, Accurately, and Appropriately <div class='ch-level-2'>4. Engaging Your Sources <div class='ch-level-3'>4.1 Read Generously to Understand, Then Critically to Engage <div class='ch-level-3'>4.2 Take Notes Systematically <div class='ch-level-3'>4.3 Take Useful Notes <div class='ch-level-3'>4.4 Review Your Progress <div class='ch-level-3'>4.5 Manage Moments of Normal Anxiety <div class='ch-level-2'>5. Constructing Your Argument <div class='ch-level-3'>5.1 What a Research Argument Is and Is Not <div class='ch-level-3'>5.3 Turn Your Working Hypothesis into a Claim <div class='ch-level-3'>5.4 Assemble the Elements of Your Argument <div class='ch-level-3'>5.5 Prefer Arguments Based on Evidence to Arguments Based on Warrants <div class='ch-level-3'>5.6 Assemble an Argument <div class='ch-level-3'>6.1 Avoid Unhelpful Plans <div class='ch-level-3'>6.2 Create a Plan That Meets Your Readers' Needs <div class='ch-level-3'>6.3 File Away Leftovers <div class='ch-level-2'>7. Drafting Your Paper <div class='ch-level-3'>7.2 Develop Effective Writing Habits <div class='ch-level-3'>7.4 Quote, Paraphrase, and Summarize Appropriately <div class='ch-level-3'>7.5 Integrate Quotations into Your Text <div class='ch-level-3'>7.6 Use Footnotes and Endnotes Judiciously <div class='ch-level-3'>7.8 Be Open to Surprises <div class='ch-level-3'>7.9 Guard against Inadvertent Plagiarism <div class='ch-level-3'>7.10 Guard against Inappropriate Assistance <div class='ch-level-3'>7.11 Work Through Chronic Procrastination and Writer's Block <div class='ch-level-3'>8.1 Choose Verbal or Visual Representations of Your Data <div class='ch-level-3'>8.2 Choose the Most Effective Graphic <div class='ch-level-3'>8.3 Design Tables and Figures <div class='ch-level-3'>8.4 Communicate Data Ethically <div class='ch-level-2'>9. Revising Your Draft <div class='ch-level-3'>9.3 Make Sure the Body of Your Report Is Coherent <div class='ch-level-3'>9.5 Let Your Draft Cool, Then Paraphrase It <div class='ch-level-2'>10. Writing Your Final Introduction and Conclusion <div class='ch-level-3'>10.1 Draft Your Final Introduction <div class='ch-level-3'>10.2 Draft Your Final Conclusion <div class='ch-level-3'>10.3 Write Your Title Last <div class='ch-level-2'>11. Revising Sentences <div class='ch-level-3'>11.1 Focus on the First Seven or Eight Words of a Sentence <div class='ch-level-3'>11.2 Diagnose What You Read <div class='ch-level-3'>11.3 Choose the Right Word <div class='ch-level-3'>11.5 Give It Up and Turn It In <div class='ch-level-3'>12.1 Two Kinds of Feedback: Advice and Data <div class='ch-level-3'>12.2 Find General Principles in Specific Comments <div class='ch-level-3'>12.3 Talk with Your Reader <div class='ch-level-3'>13.1 Plan Your Oral Presentation <div class='ch-level-3'>13.2 Design Your Presentation to Be Listened To <div class='ch-level-3'>13.3 Plan Your Poster Presentation <div class='ch-level-3'>13.4 Plan Your Conference Proposal <div class='ch-level-2'>14. On the Spirit of Research <div class='ch-level-1'>Part II. Source Citation <div class='ch-level-3'>15.1 Reasons for Citing Your Sources <div class='ch-level-3'>15.2 The Requirements of Citation <div class='ch-level-3'>15.3 Two Citation Styles <div class='ch-level-3'>15.4 Electronic Sources <div class='ch-level-3'>15.5 Preparation of Citations <div class='ch-level-3'>15.6 Citation Management Tools <div class='ch-level-2'>16. Notes-Bibliography Style: The Basic Form <div class='ch-level-3'>16.1 Basic Patterns <div class='ch-level-3'>16.2 Bibliographies <div class='ch-level-3'>16.3 Notes <div class='ch-level-3'>16.4 Short Forms for Notes <div class='ch-level-2'>17. Notes-Bibliography Style: Citing Specific Types of Sources <div class='ch-level-3'>17.1 Books <div class='ch-level-3'>17.2 Journal Articles <div class='ch-level-3'>17.3 Magazine Articles <div class='ch-level-3'>17.4 Newspaper Articles <div class='ch-level-3'>17.5 Websites, Blogs, and Social Media <div class='ch-level-3'>17.6 Interviews and Personal Communications <div class='ch-level-3'>17.7 Papers, Lectures, and Manuscript Collections <div class='ch-level-3'>17.8 Older Works and Sacred Works <div class='ch-level-3'>17.9 Reference Works and Secondary Citations <div class='ch-level-3'>17.10 Sources in the Visual and Performing Arts <div class='ch-level-3'>17.11 Public Documents <div class='ch-level-2'>18. Author-Date Style: The Basic Form <div class='ch-level-3'>18.1 Basic Patterns <div class='ch-level-3'>18.2 Reference Lists <div class='ch-level-3'>18.3 Parenthetical Citations <div class='ch-level-2'>19. Author-Date Style: Citing Specific Types of Sources <div class='ch-level-3'>19.1 Books <div class='ch-level-3'>19.2 Journal Articles <div class='ch-level-3'>19.3 Magazine Articles <div class='ch-level-3'>19.4 Newspaper Articles <div class='ch-level-3'>19.5 Websites, Blogs, and Social Media <div class='ch-level-3'>19.6 Interviews and Personal Communications <div class='ch-level-3'>19.7 Papers, Lectures, and Manuscript Collections <div class='ch-level-3'>19.8 Older Works and Sacred Works <div class='ch-level-3'>19.9 Reference Works and Secondary Citations <div class='ch-level-3'>19.10 Sources in the Visual and Performing Arts <div class='ch-level-3'>19.11 Public Documents <div class='ch-level-1'>Part III. Style <div class='ch-level-2'>20. Spelling <div class='ch-level-3'>20.1 Plurals <div class='ch-level-3'>20.2 Possessives <div class='ch-level-3'>20.3 Compounds and Words Formed with Prefixes <div class='ch-level-3'>20.4 Line Breaks <div class='ch-level-2'>21. Punctuation <div class='ch-level-3'>21.1 Periods <div class='ch-level-3'>21.2 Commas <div class='ch-level-3'>21.3 Semicolons <div class='ch-level-3'>21.4 Colons <div class='ch-level-3'>21.7 Hyphens and Dashes <div class='ch-level-3'>21.9 Slashes <div class='ch-level-3'>21.12 Multiple Punctuation Marks <div class='ch-level-3'>22.1 Names <div class='ch-level-3'>22.2 Special Terms <div class='ch-level-3'>22.3 Titles of Works <div class='ch-level-2'>23. Numbers <div class='ch-level-3'>23.1 Words or Numerals? <div class='ch-level-3'>23.2 Plurals and Punctuation <div class='ch-level-3'>23.3 Date Systems <div class='ch-level-3'>23.4 Numbers Used outside the Text <div class='ch-level-2'>24. Abbreviations <div class='ch-level-3'>24.1 General Principles <div class='ch-level-3'>24.2 Names and Titles <div class='ch-level-3'>24.3 Geographical Terms <div class='ch-level-3'>24.4 Time and Dates <div class='ch-level-3'>24.6 The Bible and Other Sacred Works <div class='ch-level-3'>24.7 Abbreviations in Citations and Other Scholarly Contexts <div class='ch-level-2'>25. Quotations <div class='ch-level-3'>25.2 Incorporating Quotations into Your Text <div class='ch-level-3'>25.3 Modifying Quotations <div class='ch-level-2'>26. Tables and Figures <div class='ch-level-3'>26.1 General Issues <div class='ch-level-3'>26.2 Tables <div class='ch-level-3'>26.3 Figures <div class='ch-level-2'>A.1 General Format Requirements <div class='ch-level-2'>A.2 Format Requirements for Specific Elements <div class='ch-level-1'>Appendix: Paper Format and Submission <div class='ch-level-2'>A.3 File Preparation and Submission Requirements <div class='ch-level-1'>Bibliography <div class='ch-level-1'>Authors <div class='ch-level-1'>Index.
• Edition: Ninth edition
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 808.066378; Dissertations, Academic -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Academic writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226430607
• Related ISBNs: 9780226494425; 9780226430577
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