A Guide to Your History Course: What Every Student Needs to Know - Softcover

Clark, Vincent A.

 
9780131850873: A Guide to Your History Course: What Every Student Needs to Know

Synopsis

A supplemental text for use in introductory survey courses in history.

 

Like a reliable travel guide, this book assists students as they “travel” through their history courses.  Easy-to-use and informative, A Guide to Your History Course walks students though how to study textbooks, how to write papers, how to avoid plagiarism, and even how history as a discipline works.

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From the Back Cover

A Guide to Your History Course

What Every Student Needs to Know

 

Vincent Alan Clark

 

 

History students are like travelers in a foreign country.  They can benefit from a guidebook that provides them orientation, information about important sites, and helpful information for solving practical problems.  A Guide to Your History Course is designed to show them the way.  Some of the topics discussed are:

 

Behind  the Scenes: the Historian's World (Chapter 3)

How to Study History (Chapter 4)

Using the Internet (Chapter 7)

How to Participate Effectively in Class (Chapter 5)

How to Write Research Papers (Chapter 9)

How to Avoid Plagiarism (Chapter 12)

 

 

 

Research Navigator TM  helps students make the most of their research time.  From finding the right articles and journals to drafting and writing effective papers and assignments, Research Navigator TM  simplifies and streamlines the research process.  It includes three exclusive databases: EBSCO's Content Select Academic Journal Database, The New York Times Search-by-Subject Archive, and Best of the Web link library.

 

Contact your local Pearson representative for more details or take a tour at www.researchnavigator.com

 

Pearson/Prentice Hall

Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458

www.prenhall.com

 

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