The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays

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Beschreibung

The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays is a practical handbook for students doing history coursework at undergraduate or master's levels. Chapters focus on each common type of history writing assignment, with concrete, step-by-step instructions, exercises, and examples tailored to the specific goals of each assignment type.

Über den Autor

Katherine Pickering Antonova is Associate Professor of History at Queens College of the City University of New York and the author of An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 ORIENTATION

1.1 How to Use This Book

1.2 How to Interpret Instructions

1.3 What's Different about College History

2 WHAT IS ACADEMIC WRITING?

2.1 The Virtues of Academic Writing

2.2 Academic Structure

2.3 Academic Style

2.4 The Writing Process

2.5 The Vices of Academic Writing

2.6 What Academic Writing Is Not

2.7 Who Is the Academic Reader?

2.8 Why Practice Academic Writing?

3 WHAT IS HISTORY?

3.1 Questions Historians Ask

3.2 How Historians Work

3.3 Why Everyone Should Take a History Class

3.4 What Is the History Major?

3.5 What Comes after the History Degree?

4 THE SHORT-ANSWER IDENTIFICATION ESSAY

4.1 What's Your Goal?

4.2 Studying Textbooks and Taking Lecture Notes

4.3 Brainstorming Lists

4.4 Distilling: Choosing the Right Details

4.5 Explaining Significance

4.6 Revising: Packing Your Sentences

4.7 Revising: Cutting the Crap

4.8 Revising: Grading Yourself

4.9 Proofreading: Handwriting, Spelling, and Grammar

4.10 In-Class Exams: Strategizing

5 THE RESPONSE PAPER

5.1 What's Your Goal?

5.2 Reading Academic History (Secondary Sources)

5.3 Reading: Annotating Your Text

5.4 Afternotes for a Secondary Source

5.5 Distilling an Argument

5.6 Responding to a Reading

5.7 Revising: Structure and Weight

5.8 Revising: Showing, Not Telling

5.9 Revising: Handling Quotes and Paraphrases

5.10 Revising: Word Choice

5.11 Revising: Cutting More Crap

5.12 Revising: Testing Your Draft

5.13 Proofreading: Grammar and Usage Errors

6 THE SHORT ANALYTICAL ESSAY

6.1 What's Your Goal?

6.2 Understanding the Prompt

6.3 Studying for Analytical Essays

6.4 Brainstorming: Evidence

6.5 Brainstorming: Claims

6.6 Brainstorming: Multiple Causes

6.7 Brainstorming: Addressing Counter-Arguments

6.8 Drafting: Argument-Based Outlining

6.9 Revising: Logic

6.10 Revising: Structure

6.11 Revising: Showing Your Work

6.12 Revising: Identifying Style Problems

6.13 Revising: Transitions

6.14 Proofreading: Past Tense Verbs

7 IMAGINATIVE PROJECTS

7.1 What's Your Goal?

7.2 Types of Imaginative Projects

7.3 Reading for Imaginative Projects

7.4 Brainstorming: What to Know or Invent

7.5 Brainstorming: Taking a Stand

7.6 Drafting: Playing with Ideas

7.7 Revising: Substance

7.8 Revising: Language and Style

7.9 Revising: Special Formatting

7.10 Citing and Attributing Sources

8 THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

8.1 What's Your Goal?

8.2 Reading Conversations

8.3 Drafting: Conversations

8.4 Drafting: Book Reviews

8.5 Evaluating Contributions

8.6 Finding Your Contribution

8.7 Composing a Title

8.8 Revision: Structure

8.9 Revision: Subject and Verb Tests

8.10 Revision: Using Feedback

8.11 Revision: Grading Yourself

8.12 Proofreading: A Checklist

9 PRIMARY SOURCE INTERPRETATION

9.1 What's Your Goal?

9.2 What Is a Primary Source?

9.3 How Historians Use Primary Sources

9.4 Text: Sourcing Documents

9.5 Text: Document Types

9.6 Reading Primary Sources

9.7 Afternotes for a Primary Source

9.8 What Is Context?

9.9 What Is Subtext?

9.10 Brainstorming: Context and Subtext

9.11 Drafting: Analyzing Subtext

9.12 Drafting: Significance

9.13 Revising: Claims

9.14 Revising: Structure

9.15 Revising: Quoting Primary Sources

9.16 Revising: Learning from Models

9.17 Revising: Grading Yourself

9.18 Proofreading

10 HISTORICAL RESEARCH

10.1 What's Your Goal?

10.2 Using Your Library

10.3 Managing Information

10.4 Secondary Source Types

10.5 Tertiary Source Types

10.6 Internet Sources

10.7 Judging Relevance

10.8 Judging Quality

10.9 Identifying Conversations and Managing Scope

10.10 Citing Sources

10.11 Annotating a Bibliography

11 THE RESEARCH ESSAY

11.1 What's Your Goal?

11.2 Topics and Research Questions

11.3 Writing Process

11.4 Argument Types

11.5 Brainstorming Argument

11.6 Research Proposals

11.7 Drafting: Incorporating Sources

11.8 Drafting: Joining the Conversation

11.9 Revising: Ideas

11.10 Revising: Expressing Uncertainty and Limits

11.11 Revising: Structure

11.12 Revising: Getting Feedback

11.13 Revising: Style and Clarity

11.14 Revising: Grading Yourself

11.15 Proofreading and Formatting

11.16 Writing an Abstract

Appendix 1: Quick Reference

Appendix 2: Further Reading and Future Writing

Appendix 3: Note to Instructors

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190271169
ISBN-10:	0190271167
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Antonova
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Antonova
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.02.2020
Gewicht:	0,503 kg