Synopses & Reviews
High school students, two-year college students, and university students all need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paperand#8212;and for decades Kate Turabianand#8217;s Studentand#8217;s Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this critical skill. In the new fourth edition of Turabianand#8217;s popular guide, the team behind Chicagoand#8217;s widely respected The Craft of Research has reconceived and renewed this classic for todayand#8217;s generation. Designed for less advanced writers than Turabianand#8217;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 an engaging and solid college paper.
The Studentand#8217;s Guide is organized into three sections that lead students through the process of developing and revising a paper. Part 1, "Writing Your Paper," guides students through the research process with discussions of choosing and developing a topic, validating sources, planning arguments, writing drafts, avoiding plagiarism, and presenting evidence in tables and figures. Part 2, "Citing Sources," begins with a succinct introduction to why citation is important and includes sections on the three major styles students might encounter in their workand#8212;Chicago, MLA, and APAand#8212;all with full coverage of electronic source citation. Part 3, "Style," covers all matters of style important to writers of college papers, from punctuation to spelling to presenting titles, names, and numbers.
With the authority and clarity long associated with the name Turabian, the fourth edition of Studentand#8217;s Guide to Writing College Papers is both a solid introduction to the research process and a convenient handbook to the best practices of writing college papers. Classroom tested and filled with relevant examples and tips, this is a reference that students, and their teachers, will turn to again and again.
Synopsis
With the authority and clarity long associated with Turabian's popular guide, this new edition is both a solid introduction to the research process and a convenient handbook to the best practices of writing college papers.
About the Author
Gregory G. Colomb (1951and#8211;2011) was professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic. He isand#160;coauthor, with Wayne C. Booth andand#160;Joseph M. Williams, of the best-selling guide The Craft of Research,and#160;published by the University of Chicago Press.
Table of Contents
Preface for Teachers
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Research?
PART 1: WRITING YOUR PAPER
1 What Researchers Do and How They Think about It
2 Finding a Research Question
3 Planning for an Answer
4 Finding Useful Sources
5 Engaging Sources
6 Planning Your Argument
7 Planning a First Draft
8 Drafting Your Paper
9 Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing Sources
10 Preventing Plagiarism
11 Presenting Evidence in Tables and Figures
12 Revising Your Draft
13 Writing Your Final Introduction and Conclusion
14 Revising Sentences
15 Learning from Your Returned Paper
16 On the Spirit of Research
PART 2: CITING SOURCES
17 Citations
18 Chicago Style
19 MLA Style
20 APA Style
PART 3: STYLE
21 Spelling: Plurals, Possessives, and Hyphenation
22 Punctuation
23 Titles, Names, and Numbers
Appendix A: Formatting Your Paper
Appendix B: Glossary of Grammatical Terms
Appendix C: Resources for Research and Writing
Index