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Research Paper Aids
Turabian Style Guides
May, 2007 -- Turabian, 7th edition is here! Read my review for more information. Remember: Online guides are not a good substitute for owning your own copy.
Turabian Format For Electronic Resources: These examples were prepared by the library staff at Pace University in New York.
Turabian Guide From Gallaudet: An overview of Turabian, including a selected list of citation examples from Gallaudet's English Tutoring and Writing Centger.
Duke's Citation Examples: From a set of online research guides prepared by the Libraries of Duke University,
this web page gives you helpful comparisons between different citation styles for
many kinds of citations. You can also follow the links on the page back to view the entire
Guide to Library Research.
Turabian Style Guide Samples: From the University of Wisconsin, Madison's Writing Center -- an online
aid for bibliographical and footnote forms adhering to the Turabian Style Guide (Chicago Manual of Style).
More Turabian Style Guide Samples: Color-coded samples of Turabian Styles compiled by the B. Davis
Schwarz Library of Long Island University. This guide illustrates the reference list format.
Writing Research Papers
Essay Writing Center: Internet Public Library step-by-step guide to researching and writing a paper.
Designed for high school and undergraduate students.
Planning and Writing a Research Paper: A brief outline of the research writing process from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Writing Center. It
includes helpful questions for each
step of a research project. Also see
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Process.html for the section on Creating an Argument -- a helpful
overview of developing a good thesis statement.
Writing Research Essays in North American Academic
Institutions -- A Guide for Students of All Nations: An online term paper by Bill Badke, librarian at Trinity Western Seminary.
This site contains excellent material for international students as well as native English speakers.
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way through the Information Fog: Link to an online textbook by William Badke for writing research papers.
Dictionaries
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition): An online version of this dictionary containing over 90,000 entries that
features 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations,
900 full-page color illustrations, language notes, and word-root appendixes.
Your Dictionary.com.
This site contains an online dictionary and thesaurus.
In addition, it contains bilingual dictionaries (e.g. German/English;
Spanish/English) and links to dictionaries for over 240 languages.
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