Manual for Writing Term Papers, Thesis

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A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

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Kate L. Turabian (1893-1987) was dissertation secretary at the University of
Chicago from 1930 to 1958. John Grossman prepared and Alice Bennett copyedited the fourteenth edition of The Chicugo Munuul of Style.
Portions of this book have been adapted from The Chicago Munuul of Style,
14th edition, 0 1969, 1982, 1993 by The University of Chicago, and from A
Munuulfor Writers of Term Pupers, Theses, und Dissertations by Kate L.
Turabian, revised and expanded for the fifth edition by Bonnie Birtwistle
Honigsblum.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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