num_pages: 256
description: An ideal complement for any history course, A Short Guide to Writing About History stresses thinking and writing like an historian. This engaging and practical 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.
language: English
title: A Short Guide to Writing About History
titlecomplete: A Short Guide to Writing About History
genres: History, Textbooks, Writing, American History, Reference, Education, Nonfiction, College, School
ratings_count: 213
publisher: Longman