| Description |
ix, 354 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The text -- Citation : The new style of citation -- Embedding citations -- Brackets alone -- Handling bracketed numbers -- Pointiing citations -- Tense in citations -- Citing authors -- Citing works -- Citing yourself -- Irrelevant citation -- Citations in draft -- Quotation : A plea against quotation -- A plea for quotation -- Epigraphs -- Quotation and citation -- Inlaid versus displayed quotations -- Punctuating quotations -- Quoting format -- Changes in quotations -- Permission to quote -- Other uses for quotation marks -- Quotations in draft -- The footnote : Fundamentals -- Explanatory footnotes -- The footnote aside -- Footnotes in draft -- Scholarly peculiarities : The abstract abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Bad words -- Bending over backwards -- Capitalization -- The cliche redivivus -- Coherence -- The colonated title -- Conclusions -- Emphasis -- Equanimity -- Hyperqualification -- Initialisms and acronyms -- Introductions -- Inventing terms and notation -- Inversion -- A little Latin -- Motivation -- Nor -- Paragraphing -- Passivity -- Personal fads -- Respective -- The waffle -- Which-hunting -- The reference -- Panorama -- Reference format : Style -- I. Authors -- II. Titles -- III. Bibliographic information -- IV. More bibliographic information -- V. Annotation -- Pinpointing -- Needless information -- Easy References : Books -- Compilations -- Collections -- Editions with editors -- Translations -- Multivolume works -- Journal articles -- Reviews -- Pamphlets -- Works not yet published -- Theses and dissertations -- Secondary reference -- Hard references : Archival sources -- Author equals publishers -- Conference proceedings -- Correspondence -- Court cases -- Government documents -- Microfilm and microfiche -- Newspapers -- Reference works -- Shoes and ships and sealing wax -- The reference list : Reference list versus bibliography -- Compound references -- Special sections -- Cross-reference -- Alphabetical order -- Chronological order -- Order of mention -- Last-minute changes -- Compression -- The finishing touch -- Special schemes : Short names -- White copy -- Super-quick -- Manuscript preparation : Final draft -- Classroom copy -- Examples of display layout -- Classroom copy with footnotes -- Page from a reference list -- Photo-ready copy -- Sample instruction sheet -- Perfect copy -- Galleys and page proofs -- The end -- Appendix 1: the Vita -- Appendix 2: Federal documents of the United States |
| Analysis |
Academic writing Handbooks, manuals, etc |
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Scholarly publishing Handbooks, manuals, etc |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Academic writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Authorship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Authorship -- Style manuals.
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Scholarly publishing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Authorship.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbook.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| LC no. |
77024436 |
| ISBN |
0394409043 |
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0394733959 (paperback) |
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