WRITING HISTORY: Informed or Not by Genre Theory?

What is history writing? The answer to that question is complex. And equally complex is the question of how to help students become better writers of history. In this chapter, the two of us—a composition specialist and history professor—look from our respective vantage points at these questions. As...

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Hauptverfasser:	Anne Beaufort, John A. Williams
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Apartheid Arts Behavioral sciences Classroom activities Communications Communities Discourse communities Education Educational activities Formal education Government Historians Historical methodology Historiography History History instruction Human societies Humanities instruction Language arts Literary criticism Literary genres Literary studies Literature Pedagogy Political science Public administration Public policy Racial policies Social groups Social policy Social sciences Sociology Student assignments Teaching Writing Writing assignments Writing instruction Written communication
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Zusammenfassung:	What is history writing? The answer to that question is complex. And equally complex is the question of how to help students become better writers of history. In this chapter, the two of us—a composition specialist and history professor—look from our respective vantage points at these questions. As we undertook this project, our aim was to further our collective thinking about what it means to teach and to learn the genres of a particular discipline, and in particular, what it means to try to design and execute effective writing assignments in undergraduate history classes to promote a deeper
DOI:	10.2307/j.ctt46nx0j.5