Writing

• Books on academic writing. Annotated bibliography on scholarly writing and style guides.
• Turabian supplement. DTS supplement to Turabian. Explains which Turabian options to use and lists additional rules specific to DTS. Turabian mistakes lists most common mistakes.
• Turabian citation examples. Power point sides showing example citations conforming to Turabian style.
• MS Word template for thesis. And MS Word template for paper. Use these MS Word templates to format your papers/thesis according to Turabian style. Download, open in MS Word, click Save As (under the File menu), pick Save as Type "Document Template". This will cause copies to be saved to your templates folder.
• Recording and organizing notes. Duh! Mostly common sense, but two tips worth knowing.
• Footnote software. Bibliographic citation management software used to help you create footnotes and bibliographies.
• Intro to Zotero. Zotero plug-in for Firefox browser generates footnotes and bibliographies according to Chicago/Turabian style.
• EndNote X2 introduction explains how to use the EndNote program to create footnotes and bibliographies. It includes a section on how to download and import records from online databases. For MUCH more detail see Endnote version X1 for Windows manual or Endnote version X1 for Mac manual.
• Unicode fonts for biblical studies. The problem of document portability. Links to recommended fonts.
• Breaking into print. Annotated bibliography on how to be published.