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Author:   Katherine Pickering Antonova (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Queens College of the City University of New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780190271169

ISBN 10:   0190271167
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 ORIENTATION 1.1 How to Use This Book 1.2 How to Interpret Instructions 1.3 What's Different about College History 2 WHAT IS ACADEMIC WRITING? 2.1 The Virtues of Academic Writing 2.2 Academic Structure 2.3 Academic Style 2.4 The Writing Process 2.5 The Vices of Academic Writing 2.6 What Academic Writing Is Not 2.7 Who Is the Academic Reader? 2.8 Why Practice Academic Writing? 3 WHAT IS HISTORY? 3.1 Questions Historians Ask 3.2 How Historians Work 3.3 Why Everyone Should Take a History Class 3.4 What Is the History Major? 3.5 What Comes after the History Degree? 4 THE SHORT-ANSWER IDENTIFICATION ESSAY 4.1 What's Your Goal? 4.2 Studying Textbooks and Taking Lecture Notes 4.3 Brainstorming Lists 4.4 Distilling: Choosing the Right Details 4.5 Explaining Significance 4.6 Revising: Packing Your Sentences 4.7 Revising: Cutting the Crap 4.8 Revising: Grading Yourself 4.9 Proofreading: Handwriting, Spelling, and Grammar 4.10 In-Class Exams: Strategizing 5 THE RESPONSE PAPER 5.1 What's Your Goal? 5.2 Reading Academic History (Secondary Sources) 5.3 Reading: Annotating Your Text 5.4 Afternotes for a Secondary Source 5.5 Distilling an Argument 5.6 Responding to a Reading 5.7 Revising: Structure and Weight 5.8 Revising: Showing, Not Telling 5.9 Revising: Handling Quotes and Paraphrases 5.10 Revising: Word Choice 5.11 Revising: Cutting More Crap 5.12 Revising: Testing Your Draft 5.13 Proofreading: Grammar and Usage Errors 6 THE SHORT ANALYTICAL ESSAY 6.1 What's Your Goal? 6.2 Understanding the Prompt 6.3 Studying for Analytical Essays 6.4 Brainstorming: Evidence 6.5 Brainstorming: Claims 6.6 Brainstorming: Multiple Causes 6.7 Brainstorming: Addressing Counter-Arguments 6.8 Drafting: Argument-Based Outlining 6.9 Revising: Logic 6.10 Revising: Structure 6.11 Revising: Showing Your Work 6.12 Revising: Identifying Style Problems 6.13 Revising: Transitions 6.14 Proofreading: Past Tense Verbs 7 IMAGINATIVE PROJECTS 7.1 What's Your Goal? 7.2 Types of Imaginative Projects 7.3 Reading for Imaginative Projects 7.4 Brainstorming: What to Know or Invent 7.5 Brainstorming: Taking a Stand 7.6 Drafting: Playing with Ideas 7.7 Revising: Substance 7.8 Revising: Language and Style 7.9 Revising: Special Formatting 7.10 Citing and Attributing Sources 8 THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 8.1 What's Your Goal? 8.2 Reading Conversations 8.3 Drafting: Conversations 8.4 Drafting: Book Reviews 8.5 Evaluating Contributions 8.6 Finding Your Contribution 8.7 Composing a Title 8.8 Revision: Structure 8.9 Revision: Subject and Verb Tests 8.10 Revision: Using Feedback 8.11 Revision: Grading Yourself 8.12 Proofreading: A Checklist 9 PRIMARY SOURCE INTERPRETATION 9.1 What's Your Goal? 9.2 What Is a Primary Source? 9.3 How Historians Use Primary Sources 9.4 Text: Sourcing Documents 9.5 Text: Document Types 9.6 Reading Primary Sources 9.7 Afternotes for a Primary Source 9.8 What Is Context? 9.9 What Is Subtext? 9.10 Brainstorming: Context and Subtext 9.11 Drafting: Analyzing Subtext 9.12 Drafting: Significance 9.13 Revising: Claims 9.14 Revising: Structure 9.15 Revising: Quoting Primary Sources 9.16 Revising: Learning from Models 9.17 Revising: Grading Yourself 9.18 Proofreading 10 HISTORICAL RESEARCH 10.1 What's Your Goal? 10.2 Using Your Library 10.3 Managing Information 10.4 Secondary Source Types 10.5 Tertiary Source Types 10.6 Internet Sources 10.7 Judging Relevance 10.8 Judging Quality 10.9 Identifying Conversations & Managing Scope 10.10 Citing Sources 10.11 Annotating a Bibliography 11 THE RESEARCH ESSAY 11.1 What's Your Goal? 11.2 Topics and Research Questions 11.3 Writing Process 11.4 Argument Types 11.5 Brainstorming Argument 11.6 Research Proposals 11.7 Drafting: Incorporating Sources 11.8 Drafting: Joining the Conversation 11.9 Revising: Ideas 11.10 Revising: Expressing Uncertainty and Limits 11.11 Revising: Structure 11.12 Revising: Getting Feedback 11.13 Revising: Style and Clarity 11.14 Revising: Grading Yourself 11.15 Proofreading and Formatting 11.16 Writing an Abstract Appendix 1: Quick Reference Appendix 2: Further Reading and Future Writing Appendix 3: Note to Instructors

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Academic historians often have an easier time creating good scholarly writing than they do explaining how to someone else how to do it. This book is here to help. It will be useful not only in classes focusing on the writing process but as a reference for all history students. --Ruth M. Karras, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, University of Minnesota Antonova's book beats other history writing guides because it addresses virtually every type of historical writing assignment. It instructs students how to read, comprehend, and synthesize historical scholarship, and thoroughly demystifies the writing process. I look forward to assigning this book to my students. --E. Taylor Atkins, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Northern Illinois University

Academic historians often have an easier time creating good scholarly writing than they do explaining how to someone else how to do it. This book is here to help. It will be useful not only in classes focusing on the writing process but as a reference for all history students. --Ruth M. Karras, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, University of Minnesota Antonova's book beats other history writing guides because it addresses virtually every type of historical writing assignment. It instructs students how to read, comprehend, and synthesize historical scholarship, and thoroughly demystifies the writing process. I look forward to assigning this book to my students. --E. Taylor Atkins, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Northern Illinois University

Author Information

Katherine Pickering Antonova is Associate Professor of History at Queens College of the City University of New York and the author of An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia.

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