Short Guide to Writing about History, A
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Product Description
An ideal complement for any history course, A Short Guide to Writing about History helps you learn how to think and write like an historian. This engaging and practical text helps you get beyond merely compiling dates and facts; it teaches you how to incorporate your own ideas into your papers and to tell a story about history that interests you and your peers. Covering brief essays and the documented resource paper, the text explores the writing and resea… More >>
This is a great book and I was able to get even more out it since I am one of Dr. Page’s students at East Tennessee State.
Rating: 5 / 5
well, it does tells you how to write good history lol….but i have read better books than this, in the end if you are not an advance write great book to pick up
Rating: 3 / 5
This book has a great outline, thought process and good examples on the process of writing history.
Rating: 5 / 5
Marius has written a concise guide to the basics of writing. Not only for history students, all those needing to write a report will gain from this book
Rating: 5 / 5
Yes, this is a nice little book on how to write “professional” history papers, which for 99.9% of readers will only ever be needed in school. It does that job reasonably well.
However, much of the book is just plain padding. Any book that devotes time to internet and computer resources these days is just wasting paper. The technology changes so fast, and most people undrstand how to use all but the most advanced functions so no mention of information that was possibly interesting 15 years ago is needed any more. You could easily cut this book way down in pages without losing any infomration.
But the main reason I gave this book two stars is the CRIMINAL cost of this thin book. To charge so much for a small paperback, which could easily be reduced by a decent professor to a series of handouts showing what form he wants submissions in, is just plain greedy. Since students will be required to buy this overpriced book, it is just plain wrong.
Yes, I now all about publishing, the cost of books, and the issue with the cost of textbooks. And this, to me is just plain greed (probably the publisher’s part). Look at Historians’ Fallacies? roughly three times the thickness, and at a third or so of the cost.
Any professor that requires you to buy this book should be challenged as to why they are not using something cheaper like a set of handouts (that yes, they would have to put together- my heart weeps for them having such a tough job). They are just being lazy, and making you read it as THEY had to when they were students.
I just say shame on anyone that requires you to buy this.
Rating: 2 / 5