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| Author's Note' | |
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| A History Essay is History | |
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| The practice of history is a craft | |
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| History is also an art | |
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| A history essay is history | |
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| A History Essay is Academic, is an Essay, is Literature | |
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| A history essay is academic writing | |
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| A history essay is an essay | |
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| A history essay is literature | |
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| The History Essay as a Process | |
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| History begins with a question... | |
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| ...and proceeds to an answer | |
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| Approaching the writing of an essay | |
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| Studying history as independent learning | |
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| Knowing your Sources | |
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| Types of source | |
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| Exploiting primary sources | |
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| Exploiting secondary and tertiary sources | |
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| The Internet | |
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| First and last things to read | |
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| Reading Critically | |
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| Reading for information and reading for ideas | |
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| The problem of authority | |
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| Distinguishing between factual evidence and judgment or opinion | |
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| Prejudice and bias | |
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| Explanation and Judgment | |
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| What counts as explanation? | |
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| Minimum reasonable assumptions | |
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| Anachronistic standards of judgment | |
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| Historical imagination | |
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| Judgment and relativism | |
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| Noting What you Read | |
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| Do not copy out verbatim from books | |
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| When to write out quotations | |
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| Common-sense guidelines | |
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| Note-taking examples | |
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| Planning | |
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| Deciding on essentials | |
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| The cycle of argument | |
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| The introduction | |
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| The plan of attack | |
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| Choosing the evidence to put in | |
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| The logic of your argument | |
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| The conclusion | |
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| Writing and Independent Thought | |
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| Identifying plagiarism | |
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| Avoiding plagiarism by offering independent thought | |
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| Paraphrase in presenting factual evidence | |
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| Good and bad use of what you read: a longer example | |
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| Drafting Your Essay | |
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| Every sentence gives a signal | |
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| Make sure that the logical structure is plain | |
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| Avoiding tendentious language in your writing | |
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| Quotations | |
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| Writing the conclusion | |
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| Matching words to ideas | |
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| Documenting Your Essay | |
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| Citations | |
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| Giving references | |
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| 'In-text' citation systems | |
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| Footnotes | |
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| What sort of documentation style suits history? | |
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| Text in footnotes | |
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| Good and bad footnoting | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The importance of citation | |
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| Revision and Correction | |
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| Some principles of revision | |
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| Layout and presentation | |
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| A check-list of revision points | |
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| A proof-reading exercise | |
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| Benefiting from conferring about corrections | |
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| Common errors | |
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| Beyond the History Essay | |
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| Document criticism | |
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| Book reviews | |
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| The literature review or critical historiographic essay | |
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| Seminar introduction papers | |
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| Reports | |
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| Examination answers | |
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| The Importance of Good English Expression | |
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| Accuracy of English expression | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Italics | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Handling quotations | |
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| Style | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Note on Historiography | |
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| References | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |