Help and Some new art

[rhari]

Hey guys, I need some help working on my art history (30K BCE - 1400CE) term paper. :/

And if you don't mind me asking, can someone explain a MLA or Chicago-Style essay?? I don't know what this means. Links would help, although I might just head down to the university writing center. Need a lot of help here ugh. I feel like posting more tonight,

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[kilroyfirelizrd]

Hoo baby! <3!

...I'll behave now

Sadly can't help with the essay. Essays and I aren't on speaking terms right now. They piss me off so much! :P
I don't know the different types of essay styles unfortunately.

[dhlawrence]

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html

I have a PDF I can e-mail you from my university, since this one is a bit long-winded. I prefer Chicago style when writing.

[dhlawrence]

Or I can just give you the link to it directly.

[rhari]

This is EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you M'dear!

[dhlawrence]

Anything else I can help you with? I did this sort of thing for three years, so I've pretty much got it down pat (BA in History; took a Baroque art history course once).

[trippytiger]

MLA and Chicago are both just different citation formats. For the most part they're pretty easy to figure out with a decent guide. I think this is the site my English prof told us to refer to for MLA style when she had us doing research essays: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

If you've got Office 2007 (highly recommended - I love it!), the 'References' tab is *really* helpful for dealing with references and bibliographies. It does most of the work for you! I don't know if other versions of MS Office or Open Office have similar functionality.

[rhari]

lol I'm glad I have 07. :3 Makes things handy dandy

[trippytiger]

I truly believe that it's the best thing Microsoft has ever done!