Turabian Style Giude

Russ White said:

Turabian

It took me twenty years to muster the courage to destroy that book.  (Forgive me, Mrs. Trosper!)

That is one book I don't wish to add to my Logos library, but if others need it, so be it.

Did you catch Bob Pritchett's comments about Strunk & White? I think it was a knock at style manuals in general.

Thomas Black said:

Matthew C Jones said:

Did you catch Bob Pritchett's comments about Strunk & White? I think it was a knock at style manuals in general

You mean this one: http://www.bobpritchett.com/blog/2009/06/on_writing_well.html  ?

That is the post. (Thanks, Thomas. I'm getting lazy in my old age.) Now it may be a good idea to ask for "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser.,and a collection of other titles that millions of home-schoolers would find useful. (Just leave out Charlotte's Web, as that was written by the same E.B. White that cursed us with "Elements."    just kidding, [6] .)

Russ White said:

Turabian isn't really a "style guide" in the same sense, though... It's more formatting than grammar, and almost everyone uses it with some form of modification or another. APA might also be useful, but it's not used nearly as much in Theological circles.

:-)

Russ

Yes, you are correct.

But Microsoft Word 2010 handles APA & Turabian better than it handles grammar & style issues. If we have to be saddled with stifling rules, it might as well be Turabian. ("Better the devil you know than the one you don't.")

MJ. Smith said:

Matthew C Jones said:

If we have to be saddled with stifling rules

Stifling rules? You forgot the smilie.