The modern researcher / Jacques Barzun ; Henry F. Graff.
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TextNew York, NY : Harcourt, Brace and Company, ©1957Description: 386 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - D 13 B289 1957
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Includes index.
PART 1. PRINCIPLES
- Research and report as historian's work
- The ABC of technique
PART 2. 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
PART 3. 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
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