Chicago (CMS) Research Paper (Bishop)

Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Marginal annotations indicate Chicago-style formatting and effective writing.

Title of paper.

Writer’s name.

Title of course,instructor’s name,and date.

Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Thesis assertswriter’s main point.

Headings helpreaders follow theorganization.

Statistics are citedwith an endnote.

Quotation is citedwith an endnote.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Long quotation is set off from text by indenting.Quotation marksare omitted.

Writer uses a primary source aswell as secondarysources.

Quotation is introduced with asignal phrase.

The writer drawsattention to an important articlecontaining primarysources.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Topic sentencestates the mainidea for this section.

Writer presents a balanced view ofthe evidence.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Topic sentence forthis sectionechoes the thesis.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Transition sen-tence links newmaterial to old.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Ellipsis mark indicates thatwords have beenomitted.

Conclusion echoesthe writer’s centralargument.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

First line of eachnote is indented1⁄2'' (or 5 spaces).

Note number is notraised and is fol-lowed by a period.

Authors’ namesare not inverted.

Last name and title refer to an earlier note by the same author.

Notes are single-spaced, with double-spacing between notes.(Some instructorsmay prefer double-spacingthroughout.)

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Entries are alpha-betized by authors’last names.

First line of entryis at left margin;additional lines are indented 1⁄2'' (or 5 spaces).

Entries are single-spaced, with double-spacing between entries.(Some instructorsmay prefer double-spacing throughout.)

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