Student's guide to writing college papers

Designed for less advanced writers than Turabian's Manual of Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams here introduce students to the art of defining a topic, doing high-quality research with limited resources, and writing a...

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Main Author: Turabian, Kate L (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press © 2010
Edition:4th edition
Series:Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
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Table of Contents:
  • What researches do and how they think about it
  • Finding a research question
  • Planning for an answer
  • Finding useful sources
  • Engaging sources
  • Planning your argument
  • Planning a first draft
  • Drafting your paper
  • Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing sources
  • Preventing plagiarism
  • Presenting evidence in tables and figures
  • Revising your draft
  • Writing your final introduction and conclusion
  • Revising sentences
  • Learning from your returned paper
  • On the spirit of research
  • Citations
  • Chicago style
  • MLA style
  • APA style
  • Spelling: plurals, possessives, and hyphenation - Punctuation
  • Titles, names, and numbers