A Short Guide to Writing About History, 4th Edition. This item is unavailable.A Short Guide to Writing About History, 4th Edition

An ideal supplement in any history course that requires writing, A Short Guide to Writing About History stresses thinking and writing like a historian.

This engaging and practical little text helps students get beyond merely compiling dates and facts; it teaches them how to incorporate their own ideas into their papers and to tell a story about history that interests them and their peers. Covering both brief essays and the documented resource paper, the text explores the writing and researching processes, different modes of historical writing including argument and concludes with guidelines for improving style.

The principle of training students to think and write like an historian set forth by Richard Marius continues as A Short Guide to Writing About History remains the premier writing resource for all history students. Maintaining the exploration of the writing and researching processes, illustrations of the different modes of historical writing, and guidelines for improving style, the Sixth Edition has been augmented to address the key issues facing today’s writer, with expanded coverage of technology and writing.

• The sixth edition includes greater coverage devoted to the avoiding plagiarism.
• Complementing the "Writing in an Electronic Age" chapter, the key issues of using technology are now addressed throughout the text.
• Discussion of evaluating sources for writing has also been expanded throughout the sixth edition.