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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextCopyright date: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ♭1985Edition: 4th edDescription: xxiii, 450 p. : ill. 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780151614790
  • 9780151614790
Subject(s):
Partial contents:
Research and report as historian's work -- The ABC of technique -- 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 -- Organizing: paragraph, chapter and part -- Plain words: the war on jargon and cliches -- Clear sentences: right emphasis and rhythm -- The arts of quoting and translating -- The rules of citing: footnotes and bibliography -- Revising for printer and public
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 427-431.

Research and report as historian's work -- The ABC of technique -- 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 -- Organizing: paragraph, chapter and part -- Plain words: the war on jargon and cliches -- Clear sentences: right emphasis and rhythm -- The arts of quoting and translating -- The rules of citing: footnotes and bibliography -- Revising for printer and public

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