In addition to producing fascinating and useful prose in the daily (or more frequent!) blog entries, we plan to make even the sidebar a veritable treasure trove of information. There you will find many links that will help you in your studies, and the inaugural resources just added are two style guides that you may use when writing your assignment papers and dissertations. Style guides help you when you are writing references and bibliographies, by showing you how to lay out the individual reference or bibliography entry.
The Chicago Style is the preferred style in the MAFDA, MAEAA, MACA, MAP courses, and in the semester courses. Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers: of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations is an excellent guide to the Chicago Style, and we have several copies in the Library’s reference section, under the shelf mark REF.WRI.TUR; you may find it in the library catalogue.
The Chicago Style is also available online, at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html. MAAB students may discuss the various style guides with their tutors and supervisors to decided which is best.
An alternative to Turabian’s guide is the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) Style Guide. We have two copies of the 2002 edition in the Library, under the shelfmark REF.WRI, and the most recent edition, which has just been published, is available online at http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml. We also have two copies of the 2008 edition on order.
The links to both the Chicago style and the MHRA style are available through this blog, in the Blogroll section of the sidebar to the right.
April 11, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Hi,
Just to let you know that a new edition of the MHRA Style Guide has just been published (see http://www.style.mhra.org.uk).
Best regards,
Gerard