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A Short Guide to Writing About History
ISBN: 9780673399984 | 0673399982
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Texas Bookman
Pub. Date: 12/1/1989
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A "must have" for students taking any history course that requires writing, "A Short Guide to Writing About History" stresses thinking and writing like a historian. Writing essays, resource papers, writing and researching history. Any one who writes about history.
| Introduction | |
| Writing History as a Way of Thinking | |
| The Essay in History | |
| Thinking About History | |
| Questioning Your Sources | |
| The Importance of Asking Why | |
| Use of Inference | |
| Statistics | |
| Modes of Historical Writing | |
| Description | |
| Narrative | |
| Expositions | ... MORE |
| Argument | |
| Rules of Argument in Historical Writing | |
| Gathering Information and Writing Drafts | |
| Find a Topic | |
| Limit Your Topic | |
| Be Sure You Have Access to the Necessary Sources | |
| Do Research | |
| Brainstorm and Make an Outline | |
| Write Several Drafts | |
| A Sample Research Paper in History | |
| Woodrow Wilson's Attitudes Toward Black Americans | |
| Things to Notice about this Paper | |
| Documenting Your Sources | |
| Sample Footnotes | |
| Bibliographies | |
| Suggestions about Style | |
| Conventions | |
| Manuscript Conventions | |
| Corrections in the Final Copy | |
| Using Quotations | |
| Other Conventions about Mechanics and Grammar | |
| Book Reviews | |
| Essay Examinations | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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