Student's Guide to Writing College Papers: Fourth Edition

<p>High school students, two-year college students, and university students all need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper&amp;#8212;and for decades Kate Turabian&amp;#8217;s <i>Student&amp;#8217;s Guide to Writing College Papers</i> has helped them to develop this critical skill. In the new fourth edition of Turabian&amp;#8217;s popular guide, the team behind Chicago&amp;#8217;s widely respected <i>The Craft of Research</i> has reconceived and renewed this classic for today&amp;#8217;s generation. Designed for less advanced writers than Turabian&amp;#8217;s <i>Manual of Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition</i>, 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.</p><p>The <i>Student&amp;#8217;s Guide</i> is organized into three sections that lead students through the process of developing and revising a paper. Part 1, &quot;Writing Your Paper,&quot; guides students through the research process with discussions of choosing and developing a topic, validating sources, planning arguments, writing drafts, avoiding plagiarism, and presenting evidence in tables and figures. Part 2, &quot;Citing Sources,&quot; begins with a succinct introduction to why citation is important and includes sections on the three major styles students might encounter in their work&amp;#8212;Chicago, MLA, and APA&amp;#8212;all with full coverage of electronic source citation. Part 3, &quot;Style,&quot; covers all matters of style important to writers of college papers, from punctuation to spelling to presenting titles, names, and numbers.</p>