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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Writing and History | |
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Stories About the Past Intended to Be True | |
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Writing History as a Way of Thinking | |
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Basic Principles for History Essays | |
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Good Historical Essays Are Sharply Focused on A Limited Topic | |
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Historical Essays Should Have a Clearly Stated Argument | |
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Historical Essays Are Built, Step By Step, on Carefully Acknowledged Evidence | |
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Historical Essays Reflect the Dispassionate Thoughts of the Author | |
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History Essays Are Clearly Written With an Intended Audience In Mind | |
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Writer's Checklist of Basic Principles | |
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Paraphrase and Plagiarism | |
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Writer's Checklist for Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Thinking About History | |
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Historical Questioning | |
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"Who" Questions | |
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"What" Questions | |
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"When" Questions | |
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"Where" Questions | |
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"Why" Questions | |
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Historical Fallacies | |
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Making Inferences | |
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Quantitative Data and History | |
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Evaluating Materials | |
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Writer's Checklist for Evaluation | |
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Gathering Information | |
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Focusing on a Topic | |
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Making Initial Inquiries | |
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Identifying Key Sources | |
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Secondary Sources | |
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Primary Sources | |
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Concluding Your Research | |
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Writer's Checklist for Research | |
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Notes and Drafts | |
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Recording Information and Ideas | |
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Keep An Ongoing Bibliography | |
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Avoid Copying Quotations | |
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Keep Any Quotations Separate | |
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Record Your Own Comments | |
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Writer's Checklist for Taking Notes | |
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Organizing Your Essay | |
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Writing and Revising Drafts | |
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Writer's Checklist for Peer Editing | |
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Voice and Style | |
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Modes of Writing | |
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Narration | |
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Description | |
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Exposition | |
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Persuasion | |
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Simple and Direct Writing | |
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Write in Coherent Paragraphs | |
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Keep Sentences Manageable | |
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Avoid the Passive Voice | |
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Write About the Past in the Past Tense | |
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Connect Your First and Last Paragraphs | |
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Word Forms and Punctuation | |
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Keep Modifiers Under Control | |
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Be Certain Pronouns Refer to Antecedents | |
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Form Plurals and Possessives of Nouns Accurately | |
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Use Intended Forms for Common Words | |
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Use Objective Case Pronouns Appropriately | |
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Maintain Parallel Form for a Series | |
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Use Commas and Semicolons Appropriately | |
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Carefully Present and Punctuate Quotations | |
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The Final Presentation | |
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Writing for Speaking | |
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Writer's Checklist for Expression and Conventions | |
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Documenting Sources | |
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Basic Principles | |
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Authorship | |
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Title(s) | |
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Location | |
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Date | |
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Shortened" Forms for Subsequent Note Citations | |
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Electronic Sources | |
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Notes and Bibliographies | |
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Writer's Checklist of Source Citations | |
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Sample Student Research Paper | |
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Manifest Destiny A: Characteristic of Nations | |
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Things to Notice About This Paper | |
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Writer's Checklist for Sample Research Paper | |
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Writing Reviews | |
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Reviewing as a Special Form of Writing | |
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A Sample Student Review | |
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Thomas Fleming's Discovery of Another War | |
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Things to Notice About This Review | |
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Writers Checklist for Reviews | |
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Short Essay Assignments | |
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Writers Checklist for Short Essays | |
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Select Bibliography of Student Resources | |
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Text Credits | |
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Index | |