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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 | |