Jim Cullen

Essaying the Past (eBook, PDF)

How to Read, Write and Think about History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of Essaying the Past features a varietyof updates and enhancements to further its standing as anindispensible resource to all aspects of researching and writinghistorical essays. * Includes expert advice on writing about history, conductinggood research, and learning how to think analytically * Includes a new chapter addressing common situations thatrepresent steps in the transition from a rough first draft to afinal version * Covers important topics such as framing questions, developing astrong introduction and topic sentences, choosing good evidence,and the crucial role of revision * Includes an annotated case study that takes the reader throughone student's process of writing an essay, illustrating howstrategies in the text can be successfully implemented * New edition features updates to cultural references, a newlywritten preface, and reorganized table of contents

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118292631
• Artikelnr.: 37347388

Autorenporträt

Jim Cullen teaches history at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. Cullen, a former Preceptor in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University, is the author of several books, including The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (2003) and the forthcoming, provisionally titled Sensing the Past: Hollywood Actors as Historians.