<p>Kate L. Turabian designed this manual as a guide to suitable style in the<br />

presentation of term papers&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; theses&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; and dissertations in both scientific<br />

and nonscientific fields. The genesis of the manual can be traced to a<br />

sentence in the June 1929 edition of the Handbook of the Graduate<br />

Schools of the University of Chicago&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; which reads: &quot;Samples of paper<br />

and directions concerning the form of the dissertation may be obtained at<br />

the Dissertation Desk&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; in Harper Library.&quot; When in 1931 the work of<br />

the Dissertation Desk was transferred to a dissertation secretary under the<br />

purview of the dean of students&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; the secretary inherited a one-page set of<br />

mimeographed instructions&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; the first paragraph stating&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; &quot;In form&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; the dis-<br />

sertation should follow the style of the University of Chicago Press as<br />

exhibited in its publications and set forth in A Manual of Style.&quot; Students<br />

and their typists&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; therefore&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; were directed to the Press manual for detailed<br />

information needed to bring papers into conformity with accepted thesis<br />

style. But this style manual&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; designed as a guide for typographers&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; edi-<br />

tors&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; and others dealing with the printed word&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; required some interpreta-<br />

tion if it was to serve as a guide to producing a typescript conforming to<br />

its standards. To supplement the Press manual&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; the dissertation secretary<br />

furnished students with a two-page set of mimeographed instructions on<br />

such matters as spacing&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; indention&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; margins&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; and underlining. With the<br />

flattening of student pocketbooks in the Depression of 1930-35&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; the need<br />

arose to expand those instructions into a small booklet incorporating the<br />

materials in A Manual of Style that were relevant to the preparation of a<br />

typewritten dissertation. The title of the booklet&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; published in 1937&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; was<br />

essentially the same as the one it bears today. Thus from the beginning<br />

the thesis manual has recommended in general the style of the University<br />

of Chicago Press as shown in its publications both books and journals--<br />

and as explained in its Manual of Style.<br />

The thirteenth edition of the Press manual&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; The Chicago Manual of Style&iuml;&frac14;&OElig;<br />

published in 1982&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; gave impetus for a fifth edition of the thesis<br />

manual. The thesis manual has always followed the Press manual s<br />

guidelines for such matters as spelling&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; punctuation&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; and distinctive treat-<br />

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