How do a put this?

Please read Chapter IV of Rampolla's Pocket Guide to Writing In History (pp. 51-89).  Comment here on that fourth chapter.  What here strikes you as particularly important?  Is there anything you hadn't thought of before?  Anything you disagree with?

 

Read Before You Write

 Please read Chapter III of Rampolla's Pocket Guide to Writing In History (pp. 24-50).  Comment here on that third chapter.  What here strikes you as particularly important?  Is there anything you hadn't thought of before?  Anything you disagree with?

Please also note at least one historian or historical work that you think is a particular good example of a historian going about their task well.

 

Mastering Sourcery

No historian is any better than their sources, and finding the right sources is an essential step in writing good history. 

Please read Chapter II of Rampolla's Pocket Guide to Writing In History (pp. 8-23).  Comment here on that second chapter.  What here strikes you as particularly important?  Is there anything you hadn't thought of before?  Anything you disagree with?

Does Anybody Care?

History majors all have at least a general sense of what history is all about and why one should study history.  It helps a lot, though, to clarify one's thoughts, to be prepared to be precise about what our profession is really all about.

Please read the first chapter of Rampolla's Pocket Guide to Writing History.  Comment here on that first chapter.  What here strikes you as particularly important?  Is there anything you hadn't thought of before?  Anything you disagree with?  

 

Welcome!

Welcome to Scribes and Pharisees, the official class blog of History 480, Historical Research and Writing. This blog is the place to record your reflections on the class and to exchange ideas on making your history papers what they should be, the most interesting, most exciting, most important essays your professors and fellow students will ever read.

To get us off to a good start, please share here one of things you remember best/enjoyed most in any of the historical books and essays you have ever read. Anything that particularly helped you to want to be a historian yourself?  Anyone historical writer you particular admire and would like to imitate?

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