Student's Guide for Writing College Papers

by Turabian, Kate L.

• ISBN13: 9780226816234
• ISBN10: 0226816230
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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