Writing History

An indispensable resource for thousands of history students over five editions, Writing History: A Guide for Students provides a wealth of tips and advice to help students research and write essays for history classes. Bringing together practical methods from both history and composition, it
covers all aspects of writing about history, including finding and researching topics, interpreting source materials, drawing inferences from sources, and constructing arguments. It concludes with three chapters that discuss writing effective sentences, using precise wording, and revising.

Using numerous examples from the works of cultural, political, and social historians, Writing History serves as an ideal text for any history course that asks students to conduct research. The sixth edition offers better guidance on how to begin a research paper and expanded sections on oral history
and visual and material sources


"Writing History is practical, well-organized, and thought-provoking. My students have presented wonderful projects as their final exercises with the help of this book. This book gives me the vade mecum I have long sought in my thirty years of teaching history."--Willard Sterne Randall, Champlain
College

"Storey has cultivated an authorial voice that is frank without being condescending, and manages to meet the students where they are, gradually leading them into and through the research process. Student feedback has led me to conclude that Writing History is the most effective and engaging guide
for undergraduates."--Mark Hersey, Mississippi State University

"Writing History is outstanding. This is the first time that I have seen these tips articulated so completely in a writing textbook. The text makes excellent use of important historians' contributions as concrete examples, which other texts do not."--Eileen Ford, California State University Los
Angeles