Writing History: A Guide for Students / Edition 3

by William Kelleher Storey

Overview

Bringing together practical methods from both history and composition, Writing History provides students with a wealth of tips and advice on the ways professional historians write. A simple, concise manual, it covers all aspects of writing about history, including finding topics and researching them, interpreting source materials, drawing inferences from sources, and constructing arguments. Using numerous examples from the work of cultural, political, and social historians, it deals with the history of every continent and serves as an ideal supplement to all history courses where writing is required. The volume is further enhanced by three closing chapters that discuss writing effective sentences, using precise wording, and revising. It also features a glossary of usage focusing on the special needs of history writers.
Addressing the problems that all historians face when writing, Writing History is a perfect guide for graduate and undergraduate history students in need of writing advice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195337556
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	04/10/2008
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

William Kelleher Storey is Associate Professor of History at Millsaps College. Formerly Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University, he is the author of Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa (2008) and Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius (1997).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Editorial Reviews

"Writing History is practical, well-organized, and thought-provoking. My students have presented wonderful projects as their final exercises with the help of this book. This book gives me the vade mecum I have long sought in my thirty years of teaching history."—Willard Sterne Randall, Champlain College

"Storey has cultivated an authorial voice that is frank without being condescending, and manages to meet the students where they are, gradually leading them into and through the research process. Student feedback has led me to conclude that Writing History is the most effective and engaging guide for undergraduates."—Mark Hersey, Mississippi State University

"Writing History is outstanding. This is the first time that I have seen these tips articulated so completely in a writing textbook. The text makes excellent use of important historians' contributions as concrete examples, which other texts do not."—Eileen Ford, California State University Los Angeles

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