Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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Title/Author: |
The modern researcher // Jacques Barzun & Henry F. Graff. |
Author: |
Barzun, Jacques, |
other author: |
Graff, Henry F. |
Published: |
New York :Harcourt, Brace & World, : 1970., |
Description: |
xvii, 430 p. ;22 cm. |
[NT 15003449]: |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- First principles -- Research and report as historian's work -- The ABC of technique -- Research -- The searcher: his mind and virtues -- Finding the facts -- Verification -- Handling ideas -- Truth and causation -- Pattern, bias and the great systems -- Historians in Europe and America -- The sister disciplines -- Writing -- Organizing: paragraph, chapter, and part -- Plain words: the war on jargon and cliches -- Clear sentences: right emphasis and right rhythm -- The arts of quoting and translating -- The rules of citing: footnotes and bibliography -- Revising for printer and public. |
Subject: |
Historiography. - |
ISBN: |
0155625101 |