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A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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<p>This Manual fi)r Writer.~ q/Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations<br />
is designed as a guide to suitable style in the typewritten presenta-<br />
tion of formal papers both in scientific and in nonscientific fields.<br />
While the ideas, the findings, and the conclusions put forth in the<br />
paper are of primary importance, their consideration by the reader<br />
depends in considerable measure upon an orderly presentation, well<br />
documented and free of mechanical flaws.<br />
The genesis of this "thesis manual" lies in a sentence of the<br />
June .1929 edition of the Handbook of the Graduate Schools of<br />
the University of Chicago, which read: "Samples of paper and<br />
directions concerning the form of the dissertation may be ob-<br />
tained at the Dissertation Desk, in Harper Library." When in 1931<br />
the work of the Dissertation Desk was transferred to a disserta-<br />
tion secretary under the purview of the Dean of Students, the<br />
secretary inherited a one-page set of mimeographed instructions,<br />
the first paragraph stating, "In form, the dissertation should follow<br />
the style of the University of Chicago Press as exhibited in its<br />
publications and set forth in A Manual of Style." Students and<br />
heir typists, therefore, were directed to that style manual for<br />
necessary detailed information concerning acceptable thesis form.<br />
But the Manual of Style, designed as a guide to typographers,<br />
editors, advertising writers, and others dealing with the printed<br />
~~ord, required some interpretation if it was to serve as a guide to a<br />
~erson who was to produce a typescript conforming to its dictates.<br />
fo supplement the Press Manual, the dissertation secretary fur-<br />
ished to students a two-page set of mimeographed instructions on<br />
uch matters as spacing, indention, margins, undedining. With<br />
he flattening of student pocketbooks in the depression of 1930-35,<br />
here appeared to be a need to expand those instructions into a small<br />
ooklet which would incorporate the materlaIs in // Manual of<br />
vi<br />
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A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书