A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations, Ninth edition - Kate L. Turabian 2018

Authors

Kate L. Turabian (1893—1987) was the graduate school dissertation secretary at the University of Chicago for nearly three decades. She is the original author of this work and the Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers, also published by the University of Chicago Press and currently in its fourth edition (2010).

Wayne C. Booth (1921—2005) was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he taught in the English Department, the Committee on Ideas and Methods, and the College. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction, A Rhetoric of Irony, Critical Understanding, The Vocation of a Teacher, and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Gregory G. Colomb (1951—2011) was professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic.

Joseph M. Williams (1933—2008) was professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Colomb and Williams jointly wrote The Craft of Argument.

Joseph Bizup is associate professor of English and associate dean for undergraduate academic programs and policies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University. He is the author of Manufacturing Culture, coeditor of recent editions of the Norton Reader, and editor of recent editions of Williams’s Style.

William T. FitzGerald is associate professor of English and director of the Writing Program and the Teaching Matters and Assessment Center at Rutgers University—Camden. He is the author of Spiritual Modalities.

Together Booth, Colomb, and Williams authored The Craft of Research, which Bizup and FitzGerald revised for its fourth edition (University of Chicago Press, 2016). And first Colomb and Williams, and now Bizup and FitzGerald, have revised Turabian’s Student’s Guide.

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