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No, this video will not teach you how to imitate the fashionistas struttin' down the streets of South Side. But you will learn the tools you need to get in tight with those trendy intellectual types.
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Chicago Style a la Shmoop. Chicago style.
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No its not the type of fashion President Obama took with him when he went
- 00:07
from the Windy City to the White House The Chicago Manual of Style or CMS
- 00:11
is mainly used for papers on history social science and anthropology.
- 00:14
While it was created by the University of Chicago plenty of other schools use it.
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- 00:19
Deep dish pizza however is only good in Chicago.
- 00:22
Dont trust the pretenders.
- 00:24
CMS is also called the editors Bible because they worship good grammar and proper citation techniques.
- 00:28
Plagiarism is their Lucifer.
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Complete with tiny forked tail.
- 00:33
A CMS-formatted paper includes a title page the main body a bibliography and footnotes footnotes footnotes.
- 00:37
Oh and footnotes.
- 00:39
First the title page.
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Get out your ruler.
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The title should be about one-third of the way down the page.
- 00:47
It should be in all caps.
- 00:50
Its okay they wont think youre shouting.
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Youll have to check your ego at the door.
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No one really cares about your name.
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However you need to throw it on there somewhere.
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It should follow in smaller print lower down the page along with your class name
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and the date.
- 01:07
At least you get higher billing than the date. Woot.
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The body of the paper is pretty simple.
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The main thing you need to know is that you should use capitalization sparingly.
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Like emergency-water-on-a-life-raft sparingly.
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Titles mentioned in the text notes or bibliography should only use capital letters for the
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first word as well as any important words that follow.
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You may have a soft spot for and but it simply isnt deemed important.
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CMS also likes block quotes for prose quotes of more than five lines.
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Just make sure to leave an extra space before and after the quote.
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Like when youre packing to move you need to leave space to maneuver around boxes.
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CMS encourages footnotes.
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If you can count you can handle footnotes.
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They start with the number one and continue in consecutive order.
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The numbers hover above the word in superscript. Think Superman.
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Yeah he hovers too.
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Youll put any information referenced in your footnotes at the end of the paper after the bibliography.
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Finally weve reached the end of your paper.
- 02:05
These babies have back. Bibliography. Footnotes.
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Theres a whole bunch of junk in this trunk.
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On the bibliography page you should put the word bibliography centered at the top of the page.
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Then list all your sources every source youve used to inform the content of your
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paper not just the ones cited in alphabetical order by author last name.
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All thats left is to plug in your footnotes.
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And thats it for CMS.
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A title page with the title in all caps.
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A main body with block quotes and footnotes.
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And your bibliography.
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Like the best fashion its simple.
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CMS is a way for your essays to dress for success. NOTE end of file
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