Referencing is an essential part of academic scholarship and ethical values demand that authors identify the sources used in their work. You are referencing in order to: Acknowledge an intellectual debt to another author where you have drawn from his or…
This article lists some of the stages involved in writing a library-based research paper. Although this list suggests that there is a simple, linear process to writing such a paper, the actual process of writing a research paper is often…
What is Peer Review? In academic publishing, the goal of peer review is to assess the quality of articles submitted for publication in a scholarly journal. Before an article is deemed appropriate to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, it must undergo the following…
Some professors use “Chicago Style” and “Turabian Style” interchangeably although they are not exactly the same. Kate Turabian, the dissertation secretary at the University of Chicago, used The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) to create a style guide for students…
