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A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Kate L. Turabian)

Research and Writing

What Research Is and How Researchers Think About It

  1. What Research Is
  2. How Researchers Think About Their Aims
  3. Conversing with Your Readers

Defining a Project: Topic, Question, Problem, Working Hypothesis

  1. Find a Question in Your Topic
  2. Understanding Research Problems
  3. Propose a Working Hypothesis
  4. Build a Storyboard to Plan and Guide Your Work
  5. Join or Organize a Writing Group

Finding Useful Sources

  1. Three Kinds of Sources and Their Uses
  2. Search for Sources Systematically
  3. Evaluate Sources for Relevance and Reliability
  4. Look Beyond the Usual Kinds of References
  5. Record Your Sources Fully, Accurately, and Appropriately

Engaging Your Sources

  1. Read Generously to Understand, Then Critically to Engage
  2. Take Notes Systematically
  3. Take Useful Notes
  4. Review Your Progress
  5. Manage Moments of Normal Anxiety

Constructing Your Argument

  1. What a Research Argument Is and Is Not
  2. Build Your Argument Around Answers to Readers’ Questions
  3. Turn Your Working Hypothesis into a Claim
  4. Assemble the Elements of Your Argument
  5. Prefer Arguments Based on Evidence to Arguments Based on Warrants
  6. Assemble an Argument

Planning a First Draft

  1. Avoid Unhelpful Plans
  2. Create a Plan That Meets Your Readers’ Needs
  3. File Away Leftovers

Drafting Your Paper

  1. Draft in the Way That Feels Most Comfortable
  2. Develop Effective Writing Habits
  3. Keep Yourself on Track Through Headings and Key Terms
  4. Quote, Paraphrase, and Summarize Appropriately
  5. Integrate Quotations into Your Text
  6. Use Footnotes and Endnotes Judiciously
  7. Show How Complex or Detailed Evidence Is Relevant
  8. Be Open to Surprises
  9. Guard Against Inadvertent Plagiarism
  10. Guard Against Inappropriate Assistance
  11. Work Through Chronic Procrastination and Writer’s Block

Presenting Evidence in Tables and Figures

  1. Choose Verbal or Visual Representations of Your Data
  2. Choose the Most Effective Graphic
  3. Design Tables and Figures
  4. Communicate Data Ethically

Revising Your Draft

  1. Check for Blind Spots in Your Argument
  2. Check Your Introduction, Conclusion, and Claim
  3. Make Sure the Body of Your Report Is Coherent
  4. Check Your Paragraphs
  5. Let Your Draft Cool, Then Paraphrase It

Writing Your Final Introduction and Conclusion

  1. Draft Your Final Introduction
  2. Draft Your Final Conclusion
  3. Write Your Title Last

Revising Sentences

  1. Focus on the First Seven or Eight Words of a Sentence
  2. Diagnose What You Read
  3. Choose the Right Word
  4. Polish It Up
  5. Give It Up and Turn It In

Learning from Comments on Your Paper

  1. Two Kinds of Feedback: Advice and Data
  2. Find General Principles in Specific Comments
  3. Talk with Your Reader

Presenting Research in Alternative Forums

  1. Plan Your Oral Presentation
  2. Design Your Presentation to Be Listened To
  3. Plan Your Poster Presentation
  4. Plan Your Conference Proposal

On the Spirit of Research

Source Citation

General Introduction to Citation Practices

  1. Reasons for Citing Your Sources
  2. The Requirements of Citation
  3. Two Citation Styles
  4. Electronic Sources
  5. Preparation of Citations
  6. Citation Management Tools

Notes-Bibliography Style: The Basic Form

  1. Basic Patterns
  2. Bibliographies
  3. Notes
  4. Short Forms for Notes

Notes-Bibliography Style: Citing Specific Types of Sources

  1. Books
  2. Journal Articles
  3. Magazine Articles
  4. Newspaper Articles
  5. Websites, Blogs, and Social Media
  6. Interviews and Personal Communications
  7. Papers, Lectures, and Manuscript Collections
  8. Older Works and Sacred Works
  9. Reference Works and Secondary Citations
  10. Sources in the Visual and Performing Arts
  11. Public Documents

Author-Date Style: The Basic Form

  1. Basic Patterns
  2. Reference Lists
  3. Parenthetical Citations

Author-Date Style: Citing Specific Types of Sources

  1. Books
  2. Journal Articles
  3. Magazine Articles
  4. Newspaper Articles
  5. Websites, Blogs, and Social Media
  6. Interviews and Personal Communications
  7. Papers, Lectures, and Manuscript Collections
  8. Older Works and Sacred Works
  9. Reference Works and Secondary Citations
  10. Sources in the Visual and Performing Arts
  11. Public Documents

Style

Spelling

  1. Plurals
  2. Possessives
  3. Compounds and Words Formed with Prefixes
  4. Line Breaks

Punctuation

  1. Periods
  2. Commas
  3. Semicolons
  4. Colons
  5. Question Marks
  6. Exclamation Points
  7. Hyphens and Dashes
  8. Parentheses and Brackets
  9. Slashes
  10. Quotation Marks
  11. Apostrophes
  12. Multiple Punctuation Marks

Names, Special Terms, and Titles of Works

  1. Names
  2. Special Terms
  3. Titles of Works

Numbers

  1. Words or Numerals
  2. Plurals and Punctuation
  3. Date Systems
  4. Numbers Used Outside the Text

Abbreviations

  1. General Principles
  2. Names and Titles
  3. Geographical Terms
  4. Time and Dates
  5. Units of Measure
  6. The Bible and Other Sacred Works
  7. Abbreviations in Citations and Other Scholarly Contexts

Quotations

  1. Quoting Accurately and Avoiding Plagiarism
  2. Incorporating Quotations into Your Text
  3. Modifying Quotations

Tables and Figures

  1. General Issues
  2. Tables
  3. Figures

Appendix: Paper Format and Submission

  1. General Format Requirements
  2. Format Requirements for Specific Elements
  3. File Preparation and Submission Requirements

How to Become a Straight-A Student (Cal Newport)

Study Basics

  1. Manage Your Time in Five Minutes a Day
  2. Declare War on Procrastination
  3. Choose When, Where, and How Long

Quizzes and Exams

  1. Take Smart Notes
  2. Demote Your Assignments
  3. Marshal Your Resources
  4. Conquer the Material
  5. Invest in “Academic Disaster Insurance”
  6. Provide “A+” Answers

Essays and Papers

  1. Target a Titillating Topic
  2. Conduct a Thesis-Hunting Expedition
  3. Seek a Second Opinion
  4. Research like a Machine
  5. Craft a Powerful Story
  6. Consult Your Expert Panel
  7. Write Without the Agony
  8. Fix, Don’t Fixate

Show Your Work! (Austin Kleon)

  1. You Don’t Have to Be a Genius
  2. Think Process, Not Product
  3. Share Something Small Every Day
  4. Open Up Your Cabinet of Curiosities
  5. Tell Good Stories
  6. Teach What You Know
  7. Don’t Turn Into Human Spam
  8. Learn to Take a Punch
  9. Sell Out
  10. Stick Around

slide:ology (Nancy Duarte)

  1. Creating a New Slide Ideology
  2. Creating Ideas, Not Slides
  3. Creating Diagrams
  4. Displaying Data
  5. Thinking Like a Designer
  6. Arranging Elements
  7. Using Visual Elements: Background, Color, and Text
  8. Using Visual Elements: Images
  9. Creating Movement
  10. Governing with Templates
  11. Interacting with Slides
  12. Manifesto: The Five Theses of the Power of a Presentation

Teaching with AI (José Antonio Bowen)

Thinking With AI

  1. AI Basics
  2. A New Era of Work
  3. AI Literacy
  4. Reimagining Creativity

Teaching With AI

  1. AI-Assisted Faculty
  2. Cheating and Detection
  3. Policies
  4. Grading and (Re-)Defining Quality

Learning With AI

  1. Feedback and Roleplaying with AI
  2. Designing Assignments and Assessments for Human Effort
  3. Writing and AI
  4. Assignments and Assessments