Format:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781119111917
Series Statement:
New York Academy of Sciences Series
Content:
Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write, and Think about History -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Student: Why Would You Look at a Book Like This? -- Part I: Thinking and Reading about History -- 1: History: It's about Time -- Living with the Past -- Good History Gives You Hope -- A Habit in Time -- 2: What's the Story with History? -- Disciplinary Measures: A Profession Takes Shape -- Plural Pasts -- 3: The Sources of History -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Sources of Ambiguity -- Obscure References, Maine Events -- Scarcity and Plenty -- 4: Good Answers Begin with Good Questions -- Good Students Have Answers -- Great Ones Have Questions -- So, What Do I Ask? -- 5: Search Engines, Research Ingenuity -- Net Gains - and Losses -- Stacks of Possibilities -- Going by the Book -- Notable Discoveries -- 6: How to Read a Book without Ever Getting to Chapter One -- Pressing Matters -- Inside Information -- Going Back, Going Forward -- Topic-Sentence Hopping -- Part II: Writing about History -- 7: Analysis: The Intersection of Reading and Writing -- Making Sense -- The Choice Factor -- Thinking with Your Heart -- The Secret Sauce of Credibility -- 8: Making a Case: An Argument in Three Parts -- Reading Your Reader -- Writing the Equation -- Arguing about Time -- 9: Defining Introductions -- Introducing the Question -- Introducing the Thesis (and Motive) -- Introducing the Key Term -- Introducing the Premise -- Watch Your Language: Diction -- 10: Strong Bodies (I): The Work of Topic Sentences -- Inter- and Intra-paragraph Organization -- Directing Topic Sentence Traffic: Double Signposts -- Clues for the Clueless: Breaking Down the Thesis -- Don't Stick with the Facts -- 11: Strong Bodies (II): Exposition and Evidence.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781119111900
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781119111900
Language:
English
