Study Guide

The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers (First Edition)

Jane E. Miller

This website makes available in PDF format a study guide for The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers, First Edition by Jane E. Miller. Each substantive chapter of the book has problem sets, suggested course extensions, and solutions suitable for use in the college classroom. Individual parts of the guide may be downloaded below. Or the entirety of the 72-page guide is available in one PDF file. (Please note that the first edition of Numbers is out of print and is superseded by the second edition; the second edition has an extensive supplementary website.)

	Title Page and Table of Contents
	Introduction
Chapter 2.	Seven Basic Principles
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 3.	Causality, Statistical Significance, and Substantive Significance
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 4.	Technical but Important: Five More Basic Principles
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 5.	Types of Quantitative Comparison
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 6.	Creating Effective Tables
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 7.	Creating Effective Charts
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 8.	Choosing Effective Examples and Analogies
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 9.	Writing about Distributions and Associations
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 10.	Writing about Data and Methods
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 11.	Writing Introductions, Results, and Conclusions
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions
Chapter 12.	Speaking about Numbers
	Problem Set | Suggested Course Extensions | Solutions

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