The modern researcher / Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012.

Contributor:

Graff, Henry F. (Henry Franklin), 1921-2020.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Report writing.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 386 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Harbinger Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace & World, 1962.

Contents:

1. Research and report as historian's work

2. The abc of technique

3. The searcher: his mind and virtues

4. Finding the facts

5. Verification

6. Handling ideas

7. Truth and causation

8. Pattern, bias, and the great systems

9. Historians in Europe and America

10. The sister disciplines

11. Organizing: paragraph, chapter, and part

12. Plain words: the war on jargon and clichés

13. Clear sentences: right emphasis and right rhythm

14. The arts of quoting and translating

15. The rules of citing: footnotes and bibliography

16. Revising for printer and public.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-367) and index.

"A Harbinger book."

OCLC:

11944564