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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Explore Your Interests | |
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| Move from a Historical Interest to a Research Topic | |
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| Use Print Sources to Begin a Project | |
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| Speak with a Librarian | |
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| Use Electronic Resources in the Library | |
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| Be Skeptical About Other Online Resources | |
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| Approach Your Topic from a Particular Angle | |
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| Go to the Library and Do Some Background Reading | |
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| Browse for More Sources | |
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| Form a Hypothesis | |
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| Craft a Proposal | |
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| Write an Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Talk to People About Your Topic | |
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| If You Have to Abandon a Topic, Do It Early | |
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| Interpreting Source Materials | |
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| Work Systematically | |
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| Distinguish Primary Sources from Secondary Works | |
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| Refine Your Hypothesis with Who, What, Why, Where, and When | |
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| Be Sensitive to the Points of View in Your Sources | |
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| Select the Most Important Source Materials | |
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| Take Notes by Being Selective | |
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| Writing History Faithfully | |
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| Collect and Report Your Sources Carefully | |
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| Incorporate the Ideas of Others with Care and Respect | |
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| Summarize and Paraphrase Fairly | |
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| Quote Occasionally | |
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| Use Ellipses and Brackets, but Do Justice to Your Sources | |
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| Learn How to Use Quotation Marks | |
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| Don't Plagiarize | |
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| Be Honest, but Don't Give Unnecessary Citations | |
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| Choose a Citation System That Suits Your Audience | |
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| Use Sources to Make Inferences | |
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| Be True to Recognized Facts | |
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| Transform Facts into Evidence | |
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| Check Your Facts | |
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| Check the Internal Consistency of Primary Sources | |
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| Check Primary Sources Against Each Other | |
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| Compare Primary Sources with Secondary Works | |
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| Box 1: Conduct Interviews Systematically | |
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| Juxtapose Sources to Make Inferences | |
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| Box 2: Make Inferences from Material Sources | |
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| Move from Inferences to Arguments | |
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| Make Reasonable Inferences from Your Sources | |
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| Make Inferences That Are Warranted | |
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| Avoid Unwarranted Comparisons | |
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| Avoid Anachronistic Inferences | |
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| Get Writing! | |
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| Consider Narratives and Analysis | |
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| Create a Draft Outline of an Analytical Essay | |
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| Create a Draft Outline of a Narrative Essay | |
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| Complete Your Analytical Outline | |
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| Complete Your Narrative Outline | |
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| Choose a Framework for Your Essay | |
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| Build an Argument | |
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| Start to Write a First Draft | |
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| Grab Your Reader's Attention, but Do It Gently | |
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| State Your Intellectual Interests Early | |
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| Build Your Essay with Good Paragraphs | |
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| Define Your Key Terms Early | |
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| Set an Appropriate Tone | |
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| Treat Other Writers with Consideration | |
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| Account for Counterarguments | |
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| Lead Your Readers to an Interesting Conclusion | |
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| Narrative Techniques for Historians | |
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| Write a Narrative to Tell a Story | |
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| Write a Narrative to Support an Argument | |
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| Combine Chronology with Causation | |
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| Get a Sense of Change and Continuity | |
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| Select the Key Participants in Your Story | |
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| Find Your Own Voice as a Narrator | |
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| Choose Your Own Beginning and End | |
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| Writing Sentences in History | |
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| Choose Verbs That Are Precise | |
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| Make Passive Sentences Active | |
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| Write in the Past Tense | |
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| Avoid Split Infinitives if You Can | |
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| Put Verbs in Your Sentences | |
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| Put Your Ideas in an Intelligible Order | |
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| Keep Related Words Together | |
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| Keep Pronouns Close to the Words They Represent | |
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| Keep Sub | |