A short guide to writing about history:
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2015
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 194 S. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780321953292 0321953290 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Writing and History I
Stories About the Past Intended to Be True
2
Writing History as a Way of Thinking
5
Basic Principles for History Essays
8
Good Historical Essays Are Sharply Focused on
a Limited Topic
8
Historical Essays Should Have a Clearly Stated
Argument
11
Historical Essays Are Built, Step by Step, on Carefully
Acknowledged Evidence
13
Historical Essays Reflect the Dispassionate Thoughts of the
Author
16
History Essays Are Clearly Written with an Intended Audience
in Mind
19
Writer s Checklist of Basic Principles
20
Paraphrase and Plagiarism
2
1
Writer s Checklist for Avoiding Plagiarism
25
Thinking About History
26
Historical Questioning
28
Who Questions
30
What Questions
30
When Questions
32
Where Questions
33
Why Questions
33
vii
viii Contents
Historical Fallacies
35
Making Inferences
37
Quantitative Data and History
40
Evaluating Materials
43
Writer s Checklist for Evaluation
47
3
Preparing for Writing
48
Focusing on a Topic
50
Making Initial Inquiries
54
Identifying Key Sources
60
Secondary Sources
60
Primary Sources
66
Concluding Your Research
72
Writer s Checklist for Research
74
4
Notes and Drafts
75
Recording Information and Ideas
76
Keep an Ongoing Bibliography
81
Carefully Select Keywords
82
Avoid Copying Quotations
83
Keep Any Quotations Separate
84
Record Your Own ideas
84
Writer s Checklist for Taking Notes
85
Organizing Your Essay
86
Writing and Revising Drafts
90
Wnter s Checklist for Peer Editing
97
Voice and Style
98
Modes of Writing
99
Narration
99
Description
102
Exposition
103
Persuasion
105
Contents ix
Simple and Direct Writing
107
Write in Coherent Paragraphs
108
Keep Sentences Manageable
109
Avoid the Passive Voice
110
Write About the Past in the Past Tense 1
1 1
Connect Your First and Last Paragraphs
112
Word Forms and Punctuation
113
Keep Modifiers Under Control
113
Be Certain Pronouns Refer to Antecedents I
14
Form Plurals and
Possessives
of Nouns Accurately 1
15
Use intended Forms for Common Words
116
Use Objective Case Pronouns Appropriately
116
Maintain Parallel Form fora Series
117
Use Commas and Semicolons Appropriately 1
18
Carefully Present and Punctuate Quotations
119
The Final Presentation
120
Writing for
Speakíng
121
Writer s Checklist for Expression and Conventions
123
Documenting Sources
124
Basic Principles
125
Authorship
126
Title(s)
127
Location
127
Date
128
Shortened Forms for Subsequent Note Citations
128
Electronic Sources
129
Notes and Bibliographies
133
Writer s Checklist of Source Citations
135
Appendix A Sample Student Research Paper
143
Manifest Destiny: A Characteristic of Nations
144
Things to Notice About This Paper
157
Writer s Checklist for Sample Research Paper
158
χ
Contents
Appendix
Β
Writing Reviews
159
Reviewing as a Special Form of Writing
159
A Sample Student Review
163
Thomas Fleming s Discovery of Another War
164
Things to Notice About This Review
170
Water s Checklist for Reviews
Ì
70
Appendix
С
Short Essay Assignments
171
Writer s Checklist for Short Essays 1
77
Select Bibliography of Student Resources
178
Credits
182
Index
184
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