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Writing Guide
These pages, based largely on The Chicago Manual of Style and the University of Rochester History Department's writing manual, is a guide to commonly accepted conventions governing citations, usage, and editing.
- For more suggestions and additional information consult:
- Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art, (New York: Longman, 1997)
- Henry M. Sayre, Writing About Art, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995)
- William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style, (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999)
- Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane, Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information (Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1996)
- For your convenience, you may wish to print the PDF version for future reference:
- Writing about Art and Art History—A Guide (PDF)
Writing Guide Online:
- Researching the Topic—Helpful Resources:
- Writing the Paper
- Documenting Sources
- Proofreading the Paper
- Revising the Paper
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