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Becker  \nWriting for Social Scientists  \nHoward S. Becker  \nPermissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property  \nSusan M. Bielstein  \nThe Craft of Translation  \nJohn Biguenet and Rainer Schulte, editors  \nThe Craft of Research  \nWayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams  \nGlossary of Typesetting Terms  \nRichard Eckersley, Richard Angstadt, Charles M. Ellerston, Richard Hendel, Naomi B. Pascal, and Anita Walker Scott  \nWriting Ethnographic Fieldnotes  \nRobert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw  \nLegal Writing in Plain English  \nBryan A. Garner  \nFrom Dissertation to Book  \nWilliam Germano  \nGetting It Published  \nWilliam Germano  \nA Poet 's Guide to Poetry  \nMary Kinzie  \nThe Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography  \nLuke Eric Lassiter  \nDoing Honest Work in College  \nCharles Lipson  \nHow to Write a BA Thesis  \nCharles Lipson  \nCite Right  \nCharles Lipson  \nThe Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis  \nJane E. Miller  \nThe Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers  \nJane E. Miller  \nMapping It Out  \nMark Monmonier  \nThe Chicago Guide to Communicating Science  \nScott L. Montgomery  \nIndexing Books  \nNancy C. Mulvany  \nGetting into Print  \nWalter W. Powell  \nTales of the Field  \nJohn Van Maanen  \nStyle  \nJoseph M. Williams  \nA Handbook of Biological Illustration  \nFrances W. Zweifel  \nA Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and  \nDissertations  \nChicago Style for Students and Researchers  \n7th edition  \nKate L. Turabian  \nRevised by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, and University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff  \nThe University of Chicago Press  \nChicago and London  \nPublisher's note: Given the complex formatting of this work, its presentation on an electronic device may differ slightly from the print book. Every care has been taken to ensure that readers of this eBook will be able to navigate the content easily and effectively.  \nPortions of this book have been adapted from The Craft of Research, 2nd edition, by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, © 1995, 2003 by The University of Chicago; and from The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, © 1982, 1993, 2003 by The University of Chicago.  \nThe University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637  \nThe University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2007 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2007  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82338-6 (electronic)  \nISBN-13: 978-0-226-82336-2 (cloth)  \nISBN-13: 978-0-226-82337-9 (paper)  \nISBN-10: 0-226-82336-9 (cloth)  \nISBN-10: 0-226-82337-7 (paper)  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Turabian, Kate L.  \nA manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers / Kate L. Turabian; revised by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, and University of Chicago Press editorial staff.— 7th ed.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \n“Portions of this book have been adapted from The Craft of Research, 2nd edition, by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. 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