Writing History: A Guide for Students

Bringing together practical methods from both history and composition, Writing History: A Guide for Students, Fifth Edition, provides a wealth of tips and advice to help students research and write essays for history classes. Now with a lay-flat binding that further increases the book's utility, Writing History covers all aspects of writing about history, including finding and researching topics, interpreting source materials, drawing inferences from sources, and constructing arguments. It concludes with three chapters that discuss writing effective sentences, using precise wording, and revising. Using numerous examples from the works of cultural, political, and social historians, Writing History serves as an ideal text for any history course that asks students to conduct research.

• The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students
• From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography
• A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
• The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide
• Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Modern Library Chronicles)
• The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Cultural Editions)
• Doing History: An Introduction to the Historian's Craft, with Workbook Activities
• Cold Sassy Tree
• The Pursuit of History
• The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past