Classroom Resources for teachers
Kate L. Turabian’s Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers is dedicated to helping students write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper. Time-tested and teacher-approved, this book will prepare students to be better critical thinkers and help them develop a sense of inquiry beginning in the high school classroom.
Developed and tested by high school teachers nationwide, the ancillary materials posted here are intended for classroom use alongside the fifth edition of the Student's Guide.
Book Reviews
Journal of Scholarly Publishing
Topic Sheets
These topic sheets are meant to help guide your classroom discussions and provide a framework for the teaching of research writing. The sheets follow the sequence of the book, and highlight some of the most important concepts students need to learn to become accomplished researchers and writers. Download PDFs of each topic below or download all 26 topics in one PDF.
- Why Research?
- Choosing a Topic: Research Questions
- Core of an Argument = Claim + Research + Evidence
- Plan Your Research Around the Questions of Argument
- How to Plan Your Time
- Finding a Research Question
- Academic Language of Research—Assignments
- Academic Language of Research—How to Position Your Idea
- Tell and Retell Your Elevator Story
- Finding Relevant and Reliable Sources
- Write as You Read
- How Arguments Grow from Questions
- Academic Language of Research—Acknowledging
- Academic Language of Research—Responding
- Planning Your Draft
- Working Through Writer's Block: Getting Unstuck
- When to Quote, Paraphrase, or Summarize
- Academic Language of Research—Verbs for Introducing a Quotation or Paraphrase
- Three Principles for Citing Sources
- The Dramatic Pattern of Introductions and Fairy Tales
- Writing an Introduction
- Drafting a Conclusion
- Writing Your Title
- Revising Your Draft: Shape (Organization), Introduction and Conclusion, Sentence Level
- Five Principles for Clear Sentences
- Accepting Feedback