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Pocket Guide to Writing History
Small, inexpensive, and designed with the history student in mind. A Pocket Guide to Writing in History is a brief text for students to use as a reference in both introductory and advanced history courses.
Covers a wide range of issues relevant to writing and research in history. A Pocket Guide to Writing in History covers working with sources, typical assignments in history, conducting research and writing a research paper, the conventions of writing in the discipline, and quoting and documenting sources. Based on the Chicago Manual of Style, the more than 40 documentation models have been updated and expanded to include more help in documenting online sources.
Useful appendix of resources in history now includes an expanded section on Internet resources.
83 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1998
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December 30, 2018
I was assigned this book in my first year history course many eons ago and this book has followed me around through four Universities and my teaching career. It is almost worn through.
It is very short and readable, has sections that can help writers, historians, students or teachers at all levels and even in various fields. Additionally, the examples are actually interesting and readable. I frequently found myself wanting to read more from the quotations.
The first half (47 pages) are dedicated to different types of academic writing and how a novice student should go about it. This includes the use of quotations and how to avoid plagiarism. The second half is on documenting sources (end/foot notes and bibliography) in the Chicago style.
It includes electronic sources despite being from 1998. I suppose a new or updated version might deal more with this but the bare necessities are there.
It is very short and readable, has sections that can help writers, historians, students or teachers at all levels and even in various fields. Additionally, the examples are actually interesting and readable. I frequently found myself wanting to read more from the quotations.
The first half (47 pages) are dedicated to different types of academic writing and how a novice student should go about it. This includes the use of quotations and how to avoid plagiarism. The second half is on documenting sources (end/foot notes and bibliography) in the Chicago style.
It includes electronic sources despite being from 1998. I suppose a new or updated version might deal more with this but the bare necessities are there.
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