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Preface to the Sixth Edition | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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List of Figures | |
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Principles and Methods of Research | |
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Research and Report: Characteristics | |
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The Report: A Fundamental Form | |
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The Historical Outlook Underlies Research and Report | |
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Reporting History in Daily Life | |
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The Past Is All-Inclusive | |
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The Research Reporter and Scholar | |
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Historical Writing: Its Origins and Demands | |
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The ABC of Technique | |
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The Prime Difficulty: What Is My Subject? | |
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I Have All My Material--But Have You? | |
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The Practical Imagination at Work | |
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A Note Is First a Thought | |
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Knowledge for Whom? | |
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Hard Work Makes Royal Roads | |
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Finding the Facts | |
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The Detective and the Clues | |
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Library and Internet | |
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A Surfeit of Sources | |
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Defining the Quarry | |
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Cross-Questioning the Book | |
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Professional Informants: Reference Books | |
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Up-to-Date Reference Works | |
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Contemporary Opinion Now and Earlier | |
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Finding One's Peers and One's Ancestors | |
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Facts and Numbers from Maps | |
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What Else Do I Need? | |
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Verification | |
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How the Mind Seeks Truth | |
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Collation, or Matching Copy with Source | |
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Rumor, Legend, and Fraud | |
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Falsification on the Increase | |
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Attribution: Putting a Name to a Document | |
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Explication: Clearing Up Details in Manuscripts | |
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Destroying Myths | |
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Identification: Giving Due Credit for Authorship | |
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The Snare of Pseudonyms | |
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Handling Ideas | |
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Fact and Idea: An Elusive Distinction | |
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Large Ideas as Facts of History | |
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Technical Terms: All or None | |
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The Technique of Self-Criticism | |
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Reporters' Fallacies: How to Avoid Them | |
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The Scholar and the Great Ideas | |
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Truth, Causes, and Conditions | |
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The Types of Evidence | |
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Probability the Guide | |
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Clio and the Doctors | |
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Assertion versus Suggestion | |
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Note Qualifiers in All Conclusions | |
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Skepticism under Control | |
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Subjective and Objective: The Right Meanings | |
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Knowledge of Fact and Knowledge of Causes | |
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On Cause and Measurement | |
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Pattern, Bias, and Revisionism | |
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The Reason of Historical Periods and Labels | |
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The Conditions of Pattern-Making | |
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The Sources of Bias and Its Correctives | |
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The View from Inside | |
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Revisionism Good and Bad | |
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The Philosophy and "Laws" of History | |
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Writing, Speaking, and Publishing | |
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Organizing: Paragraph, Chapter, and Part | |
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The Function of Form and of Forms | |
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The Steps in Organizing | |
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The Chapter: Role, Size, and Title | |
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Composing: By Instinct or by Outline? | |
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Troubleshooting after Lapses | |
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The Book Review and the Paragraph | |
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Plain Words: The War on Jargon and Cliches | |
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Keep Aware of Words | |
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The State of the Language | |
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Jargon: Origin and Sources | |
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Be Strict about Signposts | |
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Picture All Verbal Images | |
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Decide Which Images Are Alive | |
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Give Up Omnibus Words and Dressing Gowns | |
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Observe Idiom and Implications | |
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Clear Sentences: Emphasis, Tone, and Rhythm | |
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Live Sentences for Lively Thoughts | |
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Mismatching of Parts | |
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Five-Legged Sheep and Other Monsters | |
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Modern Prose: Its Virtues and Vices | |
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Punctuating for Smooth Reading | |
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Carpentry or Cabinetmaking? | |
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The Sound of the Sense | |
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The Arts of Quoting and Translating | |
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Three Recurrent Tasks | |
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The Philosophy of Quoting | |
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The Mechanics of Quotation | |
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Difficulties and Dangers of Translation | |
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Dictionaries and "False Friends" | |
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Literalism and Paraphrase | |
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To Translate Is to "Carry Over" | |
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The Rules of Citing: Footnotes and Bibliography | |
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Types and Functions of Footnotes | |
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Footnote Form and Forms | |
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Footnoting: When, Where, How Much? | |
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The Bibliography: Varieties and Forms | |
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Revising for Printer and Public | |
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Errors and Their Ways | |
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Judging the Merits of a Work | |
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Revision: Maxims and Pointers | |
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Revision: Marks and Symbols | |
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The Professional Touch | |
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The Handle to a Writer's Works | |
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Revision: The Printer and You | |
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The Final Pages: The Index | |
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Copyright: To Protect and Defend | |
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Modes of Presentation | |
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Composing: By Hand or by Machine? | |
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Advantages versus Drawbacks | |
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A Few Rudiments for Beginners | |
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The Whole Circle of Work: Editing a Classic | |
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Speaking What You Have Learned | |
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Heading Committees and Seminars | |
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The Etiquette of Leadership | |
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Making the Most of Time | |
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A Few More Recommendations | |
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InfoTrac College Edition Terms | |
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Index | |