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Research Guides
A Guide to Library Research in Music, 2nd ed. by Call Number: (ebook)ISBN: 9781538113400Publication Date: 2020
Writing in music : a brief guide by Call Number: ML3797 .R64 2020ISBN: 9780190872724Publication Date: 2020
Music Library and Research Skills by Call Number: ML3797.G68 2009ISBN: 9780131584341Publication Date: 2008-08-11
Introduction to Research in Music by Call Number: MT1.I77 2001ISBN: 9780130143327Publication Date: 2000-10-18
Organizing Your Research
- Research Project CalculatorThe Research Project Calculator is an online tool that helps you set a schedule for your paper. Enter the day you will start it, the day it's due, and you will get a suggested timeframe for each step. Click on each step (Selecting Your Topic, or Find Articles) and you'll get great tips for using the Binghamton University Libraries to help you write your paper.
- Citation Managers GuideCitation managers help you manage citations and insert bibliographies into your papers. This guide will help you get started with choosing and using the citation manager that works best for you among Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote Basic.
Style Guides
Try the Citation Help LibGuide for general information and resources for citing in APA, MLA, or Chicago style. Your professor will specify which citation style you should use.
Typically, in the music discipline, Chicago Style/Turabian is the preferred style. Check with your professor to make sure this is the style to format your paper in. Chicago Style provides citation examples in all formats including published scores, unpublished scores, online multimedia, concert reviews, sound recordings, and video recordings. For common formats, use the quick guide to citation style.
When writing, use the guidelines on how to express chords, dynamics, keys, pitches, and intervals. There are also guidelines on formatting titles of operas, songs, etc., instrumental works, recordings, and opus numbers.
The Chicago Manual of Style can be found online. It is also available in print at the Bartle Reference Desk: Z253.C57.
In some cases it may be preferable to use Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, which applies the Chicago Manual of Style to those specific forms of writing.
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by
Dewey. Bellow. Strauss. Friedman. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most important thinkers of the modern age. But perhaps no name has been spoken with more respect than Turabian. The dissertation secretary at Chicago for decades, Kate Turabian literally wrote the book on the successful completion and submission of the student paper. Her Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, created from her years of experience with research projects across all fields, has sold more than seven million copies since it was first published in 1937. Now, with this seventh edition, Turabian’s Manual has undergone its most extensive revision, ensuring that it will remain the most valuable handbook for writers at every level—from first-year undergraduates, to dissertation writers apprehensively submitting final manuscripts, to senior scholars who may be old hands at research and writing but less familiar with new media citation styles. Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, and the late Wayne C. Booth—the gifted team behind The Craft of Research—and the University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff combined their wide-ranging expertise to remake this classic resource. They preserve Turabian’s clear and practical advice while fully embracing the new modes of research, writing, and source citation brought about by the age of the Internet. Booth, Colomb, and Williams significantly expand the scope of previous editions by creating a guide, generous in length and tone, to the art of research and writing. Growing out of the authors’ best-selling Craft of Research, this new section provides students with an overview of every step of the research and writing process, from formulating the right questions to reading critically to building arguments and revising drafts. This leads naturally to the second part of the Manual for Writers, which offers an authoritative overview of citation practices in scholarly writing, as well as detailed information on the two main citation styles (“notes-bibliography” and “author-date”). This section has been fully revised to reflect the recommendations of the fifteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style and to present an expanded array of source types and updated examples, including guidance on citing electronic sources. The final section of the book treats issues of style—the details that go into making a strong paper. Here writers will find advice on a wide range of topics, including punctuation, table formatting, and use of quotations. The appendix draws together everything writers need to know about formatting research papers, theses, and dissertations and preparing them for submission. This material has been thoroughly vetted by dissertation officials at colleges and universities across the country. This seventh edition of Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations is a classic reference revised for a new age. It is tailored to a new generation of writers using tools its original author could not have imagined—while retaining the clarity and authority that generations of scholars have come to associate with the name Turabian.
Call Number: LB2369.T8 2018ISBN: 9780226494425Publication Date: 2018
