The modern researcher/

Main Author: Barzun, Jacques, 1907-
Other Authors: GRAFF, Henry F.,, Graff, Henry F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1977
Edition:3d ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • First principles
  • Research and report as historian's work
  • The ABC of technique
  • Research
  • The searcher's mind and virtues
  • Finding the facts
  • Verification
  • Handling ideas
  • Truth and causation
  • Pattern, bias and the great systems
  • Historians in Europe and America
  • The sister disciplines
  • Writing
  • Organizing: paragraph, chapter, and part
  • Plain words
  • Clear sentences
  • The arts of quoting and translating
  • The rules of citing: footnotes and bibliography
  • Revising for printer and public