Description
• The leading student guide to preparing papers
• More than six million sold
This authoritative, comprehensive, and easy to use new edition will be the standard for yet another generation of students and their teachers.
For nearly sixty years Kate L. Turabian's Manual for Writers has offered comprehensive and detailed guidance to writers of research papers -term papers, theses, and dissertations. Now the editors of The Chicago Manual of Style have revised Turabian's Manual to bring the details of style into conformity with the fourteenth edition of the Chicago Manual. This new edition of "Turabian" reflects the way students work today, taking into account the role of personal computers in the preparation and presentation of their papers.
THIS NEW EDITION INCLUDES INFORMATION ON
the components of a long formal paper
the mechanics of writing style, from abbreviations to quotations
how to prepare and refer to tables and illustrations
the most commonly used systems of citation, including how to cite electronic documents
manuscript preparation and hints on word processing software
formatting some of the complex features found in many research papers, including over two dozen sample pages.
