A Short Guide to Writing about History
A Short Guide to Writing about History

Author: Richard Marius

Publisher: Good Year Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780673523488

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This text helps students get beyond merely compiling dates and facts; it teaches them how to incorporate their own ideas into their papers and to tell a story about history that interests them and their peers. Covering brief essays and the documented resource paper, the text explores the writing and researching processes, different modes of historical writing (including argument), and offers guidelines for improving style as well as documenting sources. --From publisher's description.

A Pocket Guide to Writing in History
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History

Author: Mary Lynn Rampolla

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780312622985

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A portable and affordable reference tool, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History provides reading, writing, and research advice useful to students in all history courses. Concise yet comprehensive advice on approaching typical history assignments, developing critical reading skills, writing effective history papers, conducting research, using and documenting sources, and avoiding plagiarism -- enhanced with practical tips and examples throughout -- have made this slim reference a best-seller. Now in its sixth edition, the book offers more coverage of working with sources than ever before.

The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays
The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays

Author: Katherine Pickering Antonova

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0190271159

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The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays is a step-by-step guide to the typical assignments of any undergraduate or master's-level history program in North America. Effective writing is a process of discovery, achieved through the continual act of making choices--what to include or exclude, how to order elements, and which style to choose--each according to the author's goals and the intended audience. The book integrates reading and specialized vocabulary with writing and revision and addresses the evolving nature of digital media while teaching the terms and logic of traditional sources and the reasons for citation as well as the styles. This approach to writing not only helps students produce an effective final product and build from writing simple, short essays to completing a full research thesis, it also teaches students why and how an essay is effective, empowering them to approach new writing challenges with the freedom to find their own voice.

Writing History
Writing History

Author: William Kelleher Storey

Publisher:

Published: 2007-08-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780195427356

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Writing History offers a wealth of advice to help students research and write assignments for history classes. Designed for Canadian students in all areas of the discipline, this book includes up-to-date information and examples from the works of cultural, political, and social historians onfinding a research topic, interpreting source materials, performing internet searches, avoiding plagiarism, and more. With an expanded section on using online resources and a new chapter on writing assignments, including research proposals, book reviews, and essay exams, Writing History is an idealsupplement to any history course that requires students to conduct research.

A Short Guide to Writing about Art
A Short Guide to Writing about Art

Author: Sylvan Barnet

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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This edition addresses such fundamental matters as: description versus analysis; critical approaches to art (e.g., formal analysis; cultural materialism; gender studies); getting ideas for an essay; developing paragraphs; organizing a comparison; using bibliographic tools, including the internet; writing a catalog entry; quoting sources; documenting sources, using either the Art Bulletin style or the Chicago Manual style; avoiding sexist and Eurocentric language; writing citations for illustrations; engaging in peer review; editing the final draft; writing essay examinations.

Writing Local History Today
Writing Local History Today

Author: Thomas A. Mason

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 075911904X

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Writing Local History Today guides local historians through the process of researching, writing, and publishing their work. Mason & Calder present step-by-step advice to guide aspiring authors to a successful publication and focus not only on how to write well but also how to market and sell their work. Highlights include: Discussion of how to identify an audience for your writing project Tips for effective research and planning Sample documents, such as contracts and requests for proposals Discussion of how to use social media to leverage your publication Discussion of the benefits and drawbacks to self-publishing An essay by Gregory Britton, the editorial director of John Hopkins University Press, about financial pitfalls in publishing This guide is useful for first-time authors who need help with this sometimes daunting process, or for previously published historians who need a quick reference or timely tip.

A Short Guide to Writing about Art
A Short Guide to Writing about Art

Author: Sylvan Barnet

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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A Short Guide to Writing About Art, 6/E, the best-selling text of its kind, encourages students to form their own opinions about art, and then equips them with the tools they need to write effective essays. This handy guide addresses a wealth of fundamental matters, including description versus analysis; the value of peer review; documenting sources; and editing the final essay.

Simple & Direct
Simple & Direct

Author: Jacques Barzun

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.

A Short Guide to Writing about History
A Short Guide to Writing about History

Author: Melvin E. Page

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 2023-03-27

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1478651369

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This widely used guide for students has long emphasized the excitement of historical discovery rooted in writing about the past. This new edition continues that emphasis while also affirming the contemporary significance of the search for truth in historical writing. It includes new and revised sections related to electronic technologies as well as updated examples of recent historical scholarship throughout. It maintains the welcoming, accessible, and inclusive tone of previous editions while walking students through complex ideas and established writing standards. As it has since its inception, the tenth edition of A Short Guide to Writing about History helps students confront and conquer any of the challenges they might face in writing about history.

A Short Guide to Writing about Film
A Short Guide to Writing about Film

Author: Timothy Corrigan

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780321965240

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This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling them to write more thoughtfully and critically. With numerous student and professional examples, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates how an analysis of a film can become more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process.