Student's guide to writing college papers, Fourth edition - Kate L. Turabian 2010
Writing your paper
What researchers do and how they think about it
How experienced researchers think about their questions
Two kinds of research questions
How researchers think about their answers/arguments
How you can best think about your project
How to plan your time (no one-draft wonders allowed)
Finding a research question
How to find a topic and question in a source
Planning for an answer
Build a storyboard to plan and guide your work
Finding useful sources
Knowing what kinds of sources you need
Record citation information fully and accurately
Search for sources systematically
Evaluate sources for relevance and reliability
Engaging sources
Read generously to understand, then critically to evaluate
Use templates to take notes systematically
Manage moments of normal panic
Planning your argument
What a research argument is and is not
Build your argument around answers to readers' questions
Assemble the core of your argument
Acknowledge and respond to readers' points of view
Use warrants if readers question the relevance of your reasons
Planning a first draft
Create a plan that meets your readers' needs
Drafting your paper
Draft in a way that feels comfortable
Picture your readers asking friendly questions
Be open to surprises and changes
Develop productive drafting habits
Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing sources
When to quote, paraphrase, or summarize
Adding quotations to your text
Introducing quotations and paraphrases
Mixing quotation with summary and paraphrase
Interpret complex quotations before you offer them
Preventing plagiarism
Guard against inadvertent plagiarism
Signal every quotation, even when you cite its source
(Almost always) Cite a source for ideas not your own
Don't plead ignorance, misunderstanding, or innocent intentions
Guard against inappropriate assistance
Presenting evidence in tables and figures
Choosing verbal or visual representations
Choosing the graphical form that best achieves your intention
Revising your draft
Check your introduction, conclusion, and claim
Make sure the body of your report is coherent
Let your draft cool, then paraphrase it
Writing your final introduction and conclusion
Revising sentences
Focus on the first seven or eight words of a sentence
Learning from your returned paper
Find general principles in specific comments
Citing sources
Citations
Collect bibliographical data as you research and draft
Chicago style
MLA style
When and how to cite sources in your text
APA style
When and how to cite sources in your text
Style
Spelling: plurals, possessives, and hyphenation
Punctuation
Titles, names, and numbers
Appendix A: Formatting your paper
Appendix B: Glossary of grammatical terms