A Student's Guide to History
ISBN: 9780312535025 | 0312535023
Edition: 11thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 8/19/2009
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A practical guide to studying history, now in its 11th edition
A Student's Guide to Historyprovides the practical help students need to be effective in their history courses. In addition to introducing students to the nature of the discipline, it teaches a wide range of skills from preparing for exams to approaching common writing assignments, and it explains the research and documentation process using numerous examples throughout. With clear and accessible advice,A Student's Guide to Historyis an indispensable re... MORE
A Student's Guide to Historyprovides the practical help students need to be effective in their history courses. In addition to introducing students to the nature of the discipline, it teaches a wide range of skills from preparing for exams to approaching common writing assignments, and it explains the research and documentation process using numerous examples throughout. With clear and accessible advice,A Student's Guide to Historyis an indispensable re... MORE
Preface
A Note to Students
A Note to Students
1. The Subject of History
What History Can Tell You
How Historians Work
Approaches to History
How You Can Use History
What History Can Tell You
How Historians Work
Approaches to History
How You Can Use History
2. Succeeding in Your History Class
Keeping Up with Reading Assignments
Taking Notes in Class
Classroom Participation
Communicating Online
Keeping Up with Reading Assignments
Taking Notes in Class
Classroom Participation
Communicating Online
3. Working with Historical Evidence
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
When a Secondary Source Becomes a Primary One
Acc... MORE
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
When a Secondary Source Becomes a Primary One
Acc... MORE
4. Building a History Essay
Why Clear Writing is Important
Preparing to Write
Drafting Your Essay
Revising Your Essay
Proofreading Your Essay
The Danger of Plagiarism
Why Clear Writing is Important
Preparing to Write
Drafting Your Essay
Revising Your Essay
Proofreading Your Essay
The Danger of Plagiarism
5. Preparing Specific Writing Assignments
Writing about Primary Sources
Writing about Secondary Sources
Writing Short Essays
Giving Presentations
Taking Exams
Writing about Primary Sources
Writing about Secondary Sources
Writing Short Essays
Giving Presentations
Taking Exams
6. Researching a History Topic
Beginning the Research Process
Conducting Research
Evaluating Sources
Interpreting Sources and Taking Notes
Avoiding Plagiarism
Beginning the Research Process
Conducting Research
Evaluating Sources
Interpreting Sources and Taking Notes
Avoiding Plagiarism
7. Writing a Research Paper
Asserting Your Thesis
Organizing Your Evidence with an Outline
Writing the Text
Revising and Rewriting
Example of a Research Paper
Asserting Your Thesis
Organizing Your Evidence with an Outline
Writing the Text
Revising and Rewriting
Example of a Research Paper
8. Documenting Your Paper: Citing Sources in Chicago Style
Formatting Footnotes and Endnotes
Organizing a Bibliography
Documentation Models
Formatting Footnotes and Endnotes
Organizing a Bibliography
Documentation Models
Appendix A: Resources for History Research
Appendix B: Historical Sources in Your Own Backyard
Glossary
Index
Appendix B: Historical Sources in Your Own Backyard
Glossary
Index
JULES R. BENJAMIN was a professor of history at Ithaca College for 30 years. His current research focuses on higher education in the digital age, and his scholarly works concern modern United States and Latin American diplomatic history. He is the author of several books and articles, including The United States and Cuba: Hegemony and Dependent Development, 1880–1934 (1977) and The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution: An Empire of Liberty in an Age of National Liberation (1990).
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