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The modern researcher / by Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks D13.B334 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- Academic writing.
- Writing.
- Report writing.
- Investigación--Metodología.
- Autores.
- writing (processes).
- historiography.
- Medical Subjects:
- Writing.
- Historiography.
- Local Subjects:
- Investigación--Metodología.
- Autores.
- Genre:
- Einführung.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1985.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. First principles:
- Research and report as historian's work
- The abc of technique
- pt. 2. 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
- Relic-hunting, anti-history, and social science
- pt. 3. Writing:
- Organizing: paragraph, chapter, and part
- Plain words: the war on jargon and clichés
- Clear sentences: right emphasis and rhythm
- The arts of quoting and translating
- The rules of citing: footnotes and bibliography
- Revising for printer and public.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-431) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012. Modern researcher.
- ISBN:
- 0151614792
- 9780151614790
- 0155625128
- 9780155625129
- 0156614839
- 9780156614832
- OCLC:
- 12398631
- Online:
- Author photo
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