Turabian Cites

Q1. How do you show a name when it has a Jr., at the end?

Jr., Hugh R. Page, Randall C. Bailey, Valerie Bridgeman, Stacy Davis, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Madipoane Masenya, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, and Rodney S. Sadler Jr., eds. 2010. The Africana Bible: reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African diaspora. Minneapolis, MN.: Fortress Press.

Page Jr., Hugh R.  <--- like this, I think.

Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M. 1966. <--- example from https://library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/turabian-paren-guide

Q2. How do you show a pamphlet or tract or annual report?
A. Like a book.

Q3. How do you show a "book" with no author?
A. Use the organization as the the author.

Q4. PDFs - treat as online or not?

http://www.fairfield.edu/media/flash/library/lib_plagicourt.swf

Latin -- avoid in body of paper; may be OK to use "i.e." and "e.g." - check with institution; never use "et al" in body of paper

3 authors - don't use et al for them - 4, OK

Mark's First Review of My Project Proposal

Dear Rick,

Your proposal is carefully written and wonderfully organized. You have
done some careful research and have identified some helpful resources and
approaches to action.

I would encourage you to develop a more robust theological rationale and
to spend more time understanding the Zambian cultural context before
proceeding any further with action.

Please review and revise your proposal based on my comments. Please revise
your ethical review and include consent forms.

You have a very good start here and with some tweaking it will be ready to
go,

Mark

-- 
Dr. Mark Chapman, Assistant Professor of Research Methods
Tyndale Seminary, 25 Ballyconnor Court, Toronto M2M 4B3
(416) 226-6620 ext. 2208
http://www.tyndale.ca/seminary/dmin/

Mark's grading of my Context Paper

Dear Rick,

A nicely written paper. You write clearly and carefully. You have done a good job identifying a number of different opportunities. Your paper is nicely organized and first person without being colloquial. Your introduction is good and the process you follow to arrive at your conclusion is logical and convincing.

The addition of a large number of opportunities reduced your space to develop a smaller number of opportunities in more detail. For example, you only explore feasibility, urgency and impact in any detail for your final opportunity. 

Your force field analysis is clear but would have benefited from more detail indicating the relative strength of the different forces and how your anticipated intervention would change the balance of those forces. 

Your grammar and spelling is generally excellent. Your style is clear and flows well. There were a small number of minor grammatical mistakes and a larger number of referencing errors that will need to be fixed.

Overall a very well written paper.

GRADE - A-

Mark's General Comments on Proposals

I am in the middle of reviewing your proposals. Some of you will receive your proposals back today. Others will be returned to you over the next week. Please examine my comments make the necessary revisions and return them to me as soon as possible.

Below you will find some general comments based on issues that I have seen in a number of different proposals. Please review them and pay attention to those comments that are relevant to your proposal. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me,

Mark
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Designing Questions

• Most of you have made a good start but many of you will need to do some research on what makes a good question (e.g., dealing with desirability bias). Each question (or sometimes a set of related questions) needs a little argument explaining what is trying to accomplish and why you have a reasonable expectation that it will accomplish that purpose. If it all possible use questions that have already been tested and used (don’t forget to get permission).

Writing paragraphs

• Please see my blog post on this subject http://keepingtrackoftheworld.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/writing-paragraphs/

Ethical Review

• Play close attention to respect for persons, concern for welfare and justice. Pay specific attention to the requirements of informed consent (TCPS2, 30). Don’t say you will “try” to be ethical. Say you will be ethical and explain what specific actions you will take to do this. You must base this section on the Tri-Council Policy Statement.

Theological Rationale

• A theological rationale needs to be more than just a list of bible verses on the topic you are covering. You need to develop a biblical argument for why your particular project makes sense. Take another look at Dr. Boers lecture for guidance.

Formatting and Style

• You must consult Turabian for every assignment to assure that you conform to its requirements. It will feel like a pain now but it will save you much grief when you write your thesis in the future. Pay close attention to comments about grammar, punctuation, etc. Concerns will be noted in some places but apply to your entire document.

Making claims

• In an academic paper you cannot make claims based on your own authority. Nor can you just say that you are assuming something and leave it at that. Each claim you make has to be supported with a citation or a logical argument which defends the claim.

Other Comments

• Pay close attention to the requirements of assignments. While I have been lenient about length your other professors will not be. We have also counselled your advisors to return assignment that are too long. Brevity of writing is an exercise in clarity of thinking. Furthermore, outside of Tyndale, most of you will be writing for popular rather academic audiences which have very short attention spans for reading.
• Please do not hesitate to contact me with questions regarding my comments. At the doctoral level professor comments on papers are an invitation to conversation. They are intended to be read, attended to and dialogued about.

Dragon Dictate Speech Recognition Software

Dragon Dictate Speech Recognition Software

This could be good for capturing quotes from books. Could read them in. Could also use if I captured student comments re plagiarism and needed to transcribe.