Student's Guide for Writing College Papers

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Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1977-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

This third edition of Kate L. Turabian'sStudent's Guide for Writing College Papersis designed for high school, junior college, or college students faced with writing their first long, documented paper. Besides the book's step-by-step directions for all aspects of paper writing, the sixth chapter, "Some Matters of Style," has been extensively revised, and the List of Reference Works useful to students has been recompiled and greatly expanded by Donald F. Bond, a specialist in bibliography. Students and teachers will appreciate a new system of numbering each paragraph which facilitates locating any desired item through the Index or cross-references in the text.

Author Biography

Kate L. Turabian was editor of official publications and dissertation secretary at the University of Chicago for twenty-five years

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note ix
Introduction
1(2)
Choosing a Topic
3(4)
What to Consider
3(2)
How to Narrow the Topic
5(2)
Collecting Material
7(24)
Using the Library
7(19)
The Information Desk
8(1)
The Reference Room
9(12)
The Card Catalog
21(5)
Evaluating Source Materials
26(5)
Planning the Paper
31(25)
Exploratory Reading
31(9)
Making a Preliminary Bibliography
31(1)
Forms for Bibliography Cards
32(8)
Outlining
40(7)
Taking Stock
40(1)
Organizing Your Material
41(4)
Conventions of Outlining
45(2)
Notetaking
47(9)
Mechanics
47(2)
Types of Notes
49(7)
Writing the Paper
56(21)
Audience and Attitude
56(1)
Purpose and Tone
57(1)
Writing the First Draft
58(13)
Paragraph Structure
58(5)
Sentence Structure
63(6)
Diction
69(2)
Revising the First Draft
71(1)
Writing the Final Copy
72(5)
Paper
72(1)
Margins
73(1)
Spacing
73(1)
Title
73(1)
Pagination
73(1)
Arrangement of Footnotes
73(2)
Bibliography
75(1)
Outline
75(1)
Title Page
76(1)
Proofreading
76(1)
Corrections
76(1)
Some Matters of Style
77(45)
Footnotes
77(1)
Quotations
77(2)
Foreign Words and Expressions
79(2)
Abbreviations
81(4)
With Personal Names
81(1)
Books of the Bible
82(1)
Geographic Names
83(1)
Time
83(1)
Measurements
84(1)
Parts of a Book
84(1)
Organizations
84(1)
Numbers
85(10)
General Rule
85(1)
Series
85(1)
Initial Numbers
86(1)
Round Numbers
86(1)
Percentages and Decimals
87(1)
Fractions
87(1)
Money
87(1)
Parts of Written Works
88(1)
Dates
89(1)
Time of Day
89(1)
Numbers with Names
90(1)
Scientific Usage
91(1)
The Comma with Numbers
92(1)
Continued Numbers
92(1)
Plurals
93(1)
Enumerations
93(2)
Spelling
95(6)
Plurals
95(1)
Possessives
96(1)
Plurals and Possessives of Prepositional-Phrase Compounds
96(1)
Compound Words
97(4)
Capitalization
101(1)
Proper Names
101(1)
Other Names
101(1)
Titles of Written Works
101(1)
Division of Words
102(3)
General Rules
102(1)
Exceptions and Special Rules
103(2)
Punctuation
105(17)
Period
105(1)
Question Mark
106(1)
Exclamation Point
107(1)
Comma
107(6)
Semicolon
113(1)
Colon
114(1)
Dash
115(2)
Parentheses
117(1)
Brackets
117(1)
Other Punctuation Marks
118(1)
Multiple Punctuation
118(4)
Footnote and Bibliographic Forms
122(45)
Reference Footnotes
122(13)
First, Full References
122(11)
List of Abbreviations
133(1)
Cross-References
134(1)
Examples: Basic Forms
135(9)
Books
136(6)
Reports-Published
142(1)
Magazine Articles
143(1)
Encyclopedia Articles
144(1)
Examples: Special Forms
144(12)
Newspapers
145(1)
Radio and Television Programs
145(1)
Public Documents
145(5)
Court Cases
150(1)
Novels
151(1)
Classical Works
151(1)
Plays and Long Poems
152(1)
Shorter Poems
152(1)
The Bible
153(1)
Manuscript Collections
153(1)
Miscellaneous Unpublished Materials
154(1)
Interviews
155(1)
Citations Taken from a Secondary Source
155(1)
References in the Sciences
156(1)
Reference Footnotes: Second or Later References
157(7)
When to Use ``Ibid.''
158(1)
When Not to Use ``Ibid.''
159(5)
Content Footnotes
164(1)
Split References
165(2)
Appendix A. Sample Research Paper 167(16)
Appendix B. Select List of Reference Works 183(62)
Index 245

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