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Becoming a Historian: PART II Writing, analysing, interpreting
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PART II Writing, analysing, interpreting
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
About the authors
Acknowledgements
A note on readership
Preface
Part I: Starting, assessing, organizing
1. Joining the through-time community of historians
2. Launching the research project
3. Shared monitoring of the timetable
4. Finding well-attested evidence
5. Probing sources and methodologies
6. Managing masses of data
Part II: Writing, analysing, interpreting
7. Writing as a historian
8. Doing it in public: historians and social media
9. Unblocking writer’s block or, better still, non-blocking in the first place
10. Using technology creatively: digital history
11. Assessing some key research approaches
12. Troubleshooting
Part III: Presenting, completing and moving onwards
13. The art of public presentation
14. Asking and answering seminar questions
15. Chairing seminars and lectures
16. Taking the last steps to completion
17. Experiencing the viva
18. Moving on to publication and civic engagement
Part IV: Taking the long view – career outcomes
19. Academic and parallel trackways
Part V: Reflecting
20. Retrospective thoughts
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