Student's Guide to Writing College Papers
Fourth Edition
Revised by Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, and the University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff
304 pages
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21 line drawings, 6 tables
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6 5/8 x 9 3/8
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© 2010
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface for Teachers
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Research?
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Research?
PART 1: WRITING YOUR PAPER
1 What Researchers Do and How They Think about It
2 Finding a Research Question
3 Planning for an Answer
4 Finding Useful Sources
5 Engaging Sources
6 Planning Your Argument
7 Planning a First Draft
8 Drafting Your Paper
9 Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing Sources
10 Preventing Plagiarism
11 Presenting Evidence in Tables and Figures
12 Revising Your Draft
13 Writing Your Final Introduction and Conclusion
14 Revising Sentences
15 Learning from Your Returned Paper
16 On the Spirit of Research
PART 2: CITING SOURCES
17 Citations
18 Chicago Style
19 MLA Style
20 APA Style
PART 3: STYLE
21 Spelling: Plurals, Possessives, and Hyphenation
22 Punctuation
23 Titles, Names, and Numbers
Appendix A: Formatting Your Paper
Appendix B: Glossary of Grammatical Terms
Appendix C: Resources for Research and Writing
Index
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