Barzun, Jacques
The Modern researcher. / Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff - Harcourt: New York, c1957. - xiii, 386 p.: ill.; 22cm.
Includes index
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, charter, and part -- Plain words: the war on jargons and cliches -- Clear sentences: right emphasis and right rhythm -- The Art of quoting and translating -- The Rules of citing: footnotes and bibliography -- Revising for printer and public.
Historiography.
D13.B28
The Modern researcher. / Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff - Harcourt: New York, c1957. - xiii, 386 p.: ill.; 22cm.
Includes index
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, charter, and part -- Plain words: the war on jargons and cliches -- Clear sentences: right emphasis and right rhythm -- The Art of quoting and translating -- The Rules of citing: footnotes and bibliography -- Revising for printer and public.
Historiography.
D13.B28