Student's guide to writing college papers

Turabian, Kate L. (Author). Colomb, Gregory G. (Added Author). Williams, Joseph M. (Added Author).

Summary: 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 Kate Turabian Student Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this critical skill. In the new fourth edition of Turabian popular guide, the team behind Chicago widely respected The Craft of Research has reconceived and renewed this classic for today generation. Designed for less advanced writers than Turabian 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780226816319 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0226816311 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xiv 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

What researchers 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.