History writers

[skull_bearer]

I've found that my Holocaust sudies have been suffering because I'm really not familiar with writing proper History form essays. Any orkshops/ guide books you could point me to?

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[fjm.livejournal.com]

The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth et al.

Copies of the journal History Workshop.


But there is no perfect history essay because history essays tend to change according to discipline.

1. Read a *lot* and ask question. Let your questions shape your search for more material ie why on earth did Quakers get obsessed with feeding milk to kids in Spain in 1930s, led to research on knowledge of nutrition.

2. Sit back and figure out what you want to argue,

3. Make the argument your claim (see Booth).

4. Explain what material you are going to examine and sort your material into piles linked by the argument you want to make of the material (*not* by chronology*) ie you might have one big argument which you are going to explore through five smaller ones.

5. Now do it.


Do feel free to call me for this one. I could fit n a tutorial on Sunday, Both of us are historians after all and you can figure out which of us has a style that suits best.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

What time sunday? That would be fantastic but I'm working until 6.