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Contents A Note to StudentsPrefacePart I Research and Writing: From Planning to ProductionOverview of Part I 1 What Research Is and How Researchers Think about It1.1 How Researchers Think about Their Aims1.2 Three Kinds of Questions That Researchers Ask2 Moving from a Topic to a Question to a Working Hypothesis2.1 Find a Question in Your Topic2.2 Propose Some Working Answers2.3 Build a Storyboard to Plan and Guide Your Work2.4 Organize a Writing Support Group3 Finding Useful Sources3.1 Understand the Kinds of Sources Readers Expect You to Use3.2 Record Your Sources Fully, Accurately, and Appropriately3.3 Search for Sources Systematically3.4 Evaluate Sources for Relevance and Reliability3.5 Look beyond the Usual Kinds of References4 Engaging Sources4.1 Read Generously to Understand, Then Critically to Engage and Evaluate4.2 Take Notes Systematically4.3 Take Useful Notes4.4 Write as You Read4.5 Review Your Progress4.6 Manage Moments of Normal Panic5 Planning Your Argument5.1 What a Research Argument Is and Is Not5.2 Build Your Argument around Answers to Readers’ Questions5.3 Turn Your Working Hypothesis into a Claim5.4 Assemble the Elements of Your Argument5.5 Distinguish Arguments Based on Evidence from Arguments Based on Warrants5.6 Assemble an Argument6 Planning a First Draft6.1 Avoid Unhelpful Plans6.2 Create a Plan That Meets Your Readers’ Needs6.3 File Away Leftovers7 Drafting Your Report7.1 Draft in the Way That Feels Most Comfortable7.2 Develop Productive Drafting Habits7.3 Use Your Key Terms to Keep Yourself on Track7.4 Quote, Paraphrase, and Summarize Appropriately7.5 Integrate Quotations into Your Text7.6 Use Footnotes and Endnotes Judiciously7.7 Interpret Complex or Detailed Evidence Before You Offer It7.8 Be Open to Surprises7.9 Guard against Inadvertent Plagiarism7.10 Guard against Inappropriate Assistance7.11 Work Through Chronic Procrastination and.
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Notes-Bibliography Style: Sample Citations The following examples illustrate citations using notes-bibliography style. Examples of notes are followed by shortened versions of citations to the same source. For more details and many more examples, see chapters 16 and 17 of Turabian. For examples of the same citations using the author-date system, click on the Author-Date tab above. Book One author 1. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000), 64–65. 2. Gladwell, Tipping Point, 71. Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000. Two or more authors 1. Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin, Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), 52. 2. Morey and Yaqin, Framing Muslims, 60–61. Morey, Peter, and Amina Yaqin. Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. For four or more authors, list all of the authors in the bibliography; in the note, list only the first author, followed by “et al.” (“and others”): 1. Jay M. Bernstein et al., Art and Aesthetics after Adorno (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 276. 2. Bernstein et al., Art and Aesthetics, 18. Bernstein, Jay M., Claudia Brodsky, Anthony J. Cascardi, Thierry de Duve, Aleš Erjavec, Robert Kaufman, and Fred Rush. Art and Aesthetics after Adorno. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Editor or translator instead of author 1. Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 91–92. 2. Lattimore, Iliad, 24. Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951. Editor or translator in addition to author 1. Jane Austen, Persuasion: An Annotated Edition, ed. Robert Morrison.
Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations has sold more than nine million copies since it was first published in 1937. With clear and practical advice, this classic resource has been fully revised for a new age.See a website for the book for more information. High school students, two-year college students, and university students all need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper—and for decades Turabian’s Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this critical skill. See a website for the book for more information. Make the instructional shifts needed to meet the new ELA Common Core Standards with the Turabian Student’s Guide. Learn more about this uncommon approach to high school writing on the Turabian and the Common Core website.
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Turabian redirects here. For the author, see Kate L. Turabian. Template:DISPLAY TITLE:''A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations'' A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (published by the University of Chicago Press and often referred to simply as Turabian), is a style guide for writing and formatting research papers (such as the arrangement and punctuation of footnotes and bibliographies). The style described in this book is commonly known as Turabian style, after the book's original author, Kate L. Turabian. The seventh edition, published on April 15, 2007 (U.S.) and May 10, 2007 (UK), has undergone its most extensive revision to reflect the recommendations of the fifteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style and to present an expanded array of source types and updated examples, including guidance on citing electronic sources.[1] According to the publisher, prior to this edition, Turabian's Manual sold more than seven million copies since it was first published in 1937. [1] Contents 1 New features of the seventh edition 2 Turabian style 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links New features of the seventh edition[edit] This edition of Turabian's Manual was revised by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory Colomb and Joseph M. Williams—authors of The Craft of Research—and the University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff. The contributors preserve Turabian’s clear and practical advice while fully embracing the new modes of research, writing, and source citation brought about by the age of the Internet. [2] Turabian style[edit] Turabian style is named after the book's original author, Kate L. Turabian, who developed it for the University of Chicago.[3] Except for a few minor differences, Turabian style is the same as The Chicago Manual of Style. However, while The Chicago Manual of Style focuses on providing guidelines for.