Chicago Academic Resources
for students, researchers, writers, and teachers
High school and undergraduate
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
Kate L. Turabian
For more than seventy years the Manual for Writers has offered comprehensive and detailed guidance to authors of research papers. The seventh edition continues the tradition. Kate Turabian (1893-1987) was dissertation secretary at the University of Chicago from 1930 to 1958. This manual made her name so well known that she has become “part of the folklore of American higher education” (Quill and Scroll).
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Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles—MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More
Charles Lipson
Based on deep experience in the academic trenches, Cite Right is an accessible, one-stop resource—a must-have guide for students and researchers alike who need to prepare citations in any of the major disciplines and professional studies.
Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success, Second Edition
Charles Lipson
Doing Honest Work in College is the revolutionary reference book that can help students understand exactly how to avoid plagiarism, prepare citations, and achieve academic success. It is a book that students will refer to again and again throughout their academic careers. “The integrity of academic work is a foundation of all we do. Lipson’s book is a wonderful and clear introductory guide for students to the methods of work and their proper documentation.”—Robert Zimmer, Provost, Brown University
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The Craft of Research, Third Edition
Wayne Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams
In this book three master teachers collaborate to explain the process of research to college and university students in any field of study. Filled with tested strategies and expert advice, this book is about much more than the mechanics of fact gathering: it is a unique introduction to all that it means to do research well. “A well-constructed, articulate reminder of how important fundamental questions of style and approach, such as clarity and precision, are to all research.”—Times Literary Supplement
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace
Joseph M. Williams
This acclaimed book is a master teacher’s tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing. A logical, expert, easy-to-use plan for achieving excellence in expression, Style offers neither simplistic rules nor endless lists of dos and don’ts. Rather, Joseph Williams explains how to be concise, how to be focused, how to be organized. “Buy Williams’s book. And dig out from storage your dog-eared old copy of The Elements of Style. Set them side by side on your reference shelf.”—Barbara Walraff, Atlantic
How to Study: Suggestions for High-School and College Students
Arthur W. Kornhauser
A complete guide for successful studying, How to Study is concise, practical, time-tested, and free of gimmicks. Designed originally for freshmen at the University of Chicago, this smart book has helped generations of students throughout the country improve their skills in learning quickly and effectively.
How to Write a BA Thesis: A Practical Guide from Your First Ideas to Your Finished Paper
Charles Lipson
“A capstone experience in college, the senior honors thesis is a challenge not just for the student, but for his or her advisor, too. Charles Lipson has done both a big favor by mapping out the tasks, solutions, and pitfalls step by step. I will tell my honors advisees about this book—and refer to it again and again myself.”—Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
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Succeeding as an International Student in the United States and Canada
Charles Lipson
“In order to master an academic subject, students from many foreign countries first have to learn to live in a foreign academic culture and to cope with a myriad of practical problems. Charles Lipson’s book gives these students exactly what they need: an orientation in the academic culture of the United States and Canada and helpful advice for virtually every practical problem they encounter.”—Otto Keck, Chair of International Organizations and International Public Policy, University of Potsdam, Germany
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Graduate and professional
The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure
John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold
“The Chicago Guide is the single best guide to academe I have ever read. Both thorough and thoroughly honest, the Guide provides the kind of inside information every graduate student and young professor needs, but seldom finds. The conversational approach is inviting, and the authorial voices appealing. Would that such a book existed when I was getting started!”—Peter A. Coclanis, Albert R. Newsome Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Read chapter two ’Entering Graduate School’
The Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science: A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs
Victor A. Bloomfield and Esam E. El-Fakahany
“The Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science pulls together a wide variety of resources to assist scientists from their doctoral experience through postdoctoral to faculty member or industrial career researcher. There are many excellent and thorough books on various segments of the scientific career, but none that cover the span of years and experiences described in this text. The selection of topics is appropriately broad, yet the focus remains on the elements of success. It is a mentor in print.”—Karen Klomparens, Dean of the Graduate School, Michigan State University
The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition
Staff of the University of Chicago Press
For one hundred years, the one essential reference for all who work with words. “The definitive writing reference work.”—Bloomsbury Review
The Chicago Manual of Style Online offers the text of the Manual by subscription, plus free tools and the Style Q&A.
Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property
Susan M. Bielstein
“Susan Bielstein draws on her decades of experience as an editor of illustrated books in Permissions, A Survival Guide, which helps readers navigate intellectual property law. … Besides enjoying the tongue-in-cheek prose, readers will learn how to determine if an artwork is copyrighted, how to get a high-quality reproduction, and what 'fair use' is.”—Museum News
Read an excerpt.
Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
Howard S. Becker
Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. “An instant classic.…Becker's stories and reflections make a great book, one that will find its way into the hands of a great many social scientists, and as with everything he writes, it is lively and accessible, a joy to read.”—Charles Ragin, Northwestern University
Read the first chapter.
Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition
Howard S. Becker
Becker shows students (and post graduates) what they are doing wrong in their attempts to write and offers eminently useful suggestions about what they should be doing instead.
Telling About Society
Howard S. Becker
“As with all of Becker’s work, this new book is deceptively simple. The writing is quiet and clear. You are lulled into thinking you are reading a good story, as indeed you are. However, after reading a chapter or two, you realize that you have begun to think of the world differently. This is both a good read and profound theory—a combination very rarely found in sociology. This book makes you rethink representations, maps, and data. It is a tour de force from a writer whose work has shaped the social sciences for decades.”—Susan Leigh Star, Professor, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw
Using actual unfinished, “working” notes as examples, the authors develop a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice about how to write useful field notes. A vigorous and persuasive response to those who say that field notes are too idiosyncratic to allow formal instruction, this book shows that note-taking is a craft that can be taught.
From Dissertation to Book
William Germano
“With insight, compassion, and wit, William Germano has done all dissertation writers (and dissertation supervisors) a great service. This book should be handed to the candidate at the conclusion of all doctoral defenses.”—Eric Foner, Columbia University
Read an excerpt.
Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books
William Germano
“From writing and presenting one’s manuscript to the various functions and responsibilities of publishers, Germano’s Getting It Published offers targeted advice about this vital aspect of scholarship to both would-be academic authors and those who’ve been through the mill and want to make it easier for themselves the next time around.”—Publishers Weekly
Read a chapter ’What Do Publishers Do?’
The Association of American University Presses Directory, 2008
AAUP
Find a publisher for your book in this directory of the 128 American university presses.
The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology
C. Ray Chandler, Lorne M. Wolfe, and Daniel E. L. Promislow
“The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology is a nuts-and-bolts book, full of practical advice such as how to construct an application that won’t be thrown out, how to give a seminar, and how to complete the interview process successfully. … The advice is sensible, being based on years of reading flawed job applications and watching candidates make fatal errors.”—Pamela A. Silver, Nature
The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom
Alan Brinkley, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Cynthia Fleming, Charles Forcey, and Eric Rothschild
“All teachers must start somewhere, but teaching that first class can be tough. While college instructors are usually trained extensively in their specific disciplines, they are seldom trained in how to deal with the actual classroom. The authors try to remedy that situation with this manual. Although meant primarily for beginning teachers, this work is so packed with useful information that experienced teachers could also benefit from reading it. Included are the basics, such as how to plan courses and implement lessons, as well as little-known tips.…Preparing a syllabus, leading classroom discussions, lecturing, avoiding cheating—it’s all here!”—Library Journal
Read the introduction and Chapter 10: ‘Using Electronic Resources for Teaching’.
“So What Are You Going to Do with That?”: Finding Careers Outside Academia
Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius
“What if, while one is ensconced in a six-year art history doctoral program, the idea of a career in academia loses its luster? Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius have been there. … In “So What Are You Going to Do with That?”, they use wit, directness, and great anecdotal evidence to guide readers through the soul-searching decision to leave academia.”—Publishers Weekly
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