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Writing History: A Guide for Students 3rd Edition

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Bringing together practical methods from both history and composition, Writing History provides a wealth of tips and advice to help students research and write essays for history classes. The book covers all aspects of writing about history, including finding topics and researching them, 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 supplement to history courses that require students to conduct research. The third edition includes expanded sections on peer editing and topic selection, as well as new sections on searching and using the Internet.
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    April 10, 2008
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"Storey's book is a first-rate guide for students who are new to the field of history and to the processes of historical research and writing. He offers a useful framework for organizing and successfully completing a major research project in a history class."--Ellen Stroud, Oberlin College

"It is rare that books about writing are well-written. This is a well-presented story that should keep students' attention throughout. It is also brilliantly practical. This is the computer manual that tells you to plug in the machine first. It is a work that students will read and that faculty can rely on."--Mark A. Kishlansky, Harvard University

"The strength of this text is its focus upon a methodical process of selecting a research topic, building the argument, and organizing the essay. Nothing else out there, in my opinion, does this as well as Writing History."--John Howard Smith, Texas A&M University-Commerce

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Bringing together practical methods from both history and composition, Writing History provides a wealth of tips and advice to help students research and write essays for history classes.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 3rd edition (April 10, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195337557
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195337556
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.3 x 5.5 inches
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William Kelleher Storey was born in Queens, New York, in 1965. Bill grew up on Long Island and was educated at Andover, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins. He began his college teaching career at Harvard, where he taught writing from 1995 to 1997. Since 1999 he has been a history professor at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2013, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named Storey to be the State Winner in the U.S. Professor of the Year competition. Bill's research and writing about the history of international conflict and technology has been supported by a Fulbright Scholarship as well as grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Society for the History of Technology has awarded him the Abbot Payson Usher Prize for the year's best journal article (2005) and the Sidney M. Edelstein Prize for the year's best book (2009).

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Karen S. Garvin
5.0 out of 5 stars Succinct and Fun
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2008
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For those of you who don't want to suffer from grammar overload, I highly recommend this volume. The book is fairly short, but each chapter offers the basic information needed to write your history paper. Additionally, Storey's writing style is light, and in some places quite humorous -- which is a pleasant bonus in a writing manual. Each chapter is broken down into nice, small sections that can be read in a few minutes each. This is great if you have a lot of small breaks during the day instead of one large chunk of study time. The book is not a chore to read.

Storey's book is an excellent first book for someone who wants to write about history, although it does not get very deep into the subject. For theories of historiography you'll need to look at other books. Also, this book won't replace your grammar manual or stylebook. Think of it as your first stop.
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Jared
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic place to start
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2010
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I am an undergraduate history student working on my first substantial research paper, and this book is giving me clear, orgainized instruction on how to focus my research and writing. It's well written, easy to read, and very straightforward. The single best instruction on writing I have encountered in my studies.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty strait forward
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2013
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It's a short book of writing tips, specifically geared for history students. It would be a useful addition to the bookshelf of any budding BA holder.

The downside is you'll graduate with a history degree and be under-employed like the rest of us.
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George Aubrey
2.0 out of 5 stars oh really
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2013
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Did you know that written or oral history is influenced by who tells the story? Really? Oh, my! How could I have been so stupid. And how obvious can you be to have a whole book written around one tiny obvious premise?
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Erin
5.0 out of 5 stars Basic Writing Text
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2010
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This book is good for what most people will use it for, a class. While it is a bit simple at times if you have graduated from Middle School it is a fine guide to writing history. The book came in a timely fashion for my class and fit its description.
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Ann D. Weippert
5.0 out of 5 stars Good help
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2012
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As a student of history, this book has lots of helpful hints on how to get your point across. One reference book definitely needed on the shelf of any serious history student.
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John Alden
2.0 out of 5 stars Misprint
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2013
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Unfortunately, the book's pages were blank until page 37. Probably a misprint of some kind, but I had to return the book and ask for a replacement.
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Patrick Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
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Roshni Karia
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2019
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tardisdoctor1
4.0 out of 5 stars A thrilling introduction to writingt History
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2012
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This is a suitable and ideal guide for History students - I read it later on in my first year, but it would be useful reading it prior to starting writing your essay's. The content is concise, it reads as a narrative, and may seem like a guide to more history projects in the research field, but for essay writing, it does reienforce what you may already know, as well as provide deatiled advice on other elements of beginning this wonderful discipline of History at university level and beyond. Enjoy!
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Angela D.
4.0 out of 5 stars Writing History
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2010
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Useful & informative book. Well written with easy to follow headings. This book was recommended as an intro to my BA History course. I am sure it will be well used by the end of my course.
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