Kate L. Turabian (1893-1987) was the graduate school dissertation secretary at the University of Chicago from 1930 to 1958. She is the author of A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations and the Student's Guide for Writing College Papers. Joseph Bizup is associate professor in the Department of English at Boston University. He revised the last three editions of Joseph M. Williams's Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. William T. FitzGerald is associate professor in the Department of English and Communication at Rutgers University-Camden and has published widely on writing and research, the rhetoric of prayer, and style. Juli Parrish is teaching professor and director of the writing center at the University of Denver. The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff represents the collective judgment of Press editors past and present, going back to 1892.