An ideal accessory in any history course that requires writing, A Short Guide to Writing About History stresses thinking and writing like a historian. This engaging and practical little text helps the readers 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 both brief essays and the documented resource paper, this book explores the writing and researching processes, different modes of historical writing including argument and concludes with guidelines for improving style. For any one who will need to write about history.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
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well, it does tells you how to write good history lol....but i have read better books than this, in the end if you are not an advance write great book to pick up
short guide to writing about history (6th edition):
This book has a great outline, thought process and good examples on the process of writing history.
Dr. Page rules!:
This is a great book and I was able to get even more out it since I am one of Dr. Page's students at East Tennessee State.
Extremely helpful book:
Marius has written an extremely readable and informative book on the writing of history. He proceeds from showing readers what questions to ask in doing historical research into types of historical writing can be done, from discriptive to argumentitive. However, the most useful part of the book is the chapter on sources and writing. He skillfully shows readers how to choose a topic and narrow their focus into a managable paper. He also discusses the use of CD-Rom and Internet sources, a necessity for... more info
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