The Modern Researcher

This classic introduction to the techniques of research and the art of expression is used widely in history courses, but is also appropriate for writing and research methods courses in other departments. Barzun and Graff thoroughly cover every aspect of research, from the selection of a topic through the gathering, analysis, writing, revision, and publication of findings presenting the process not as a set of rules but through actual cases that put the subtleties of research in a useful context. Part One covers the principles and methods of research; Part Two covers writing, speaking, and getting one's work published.

Comprehensive reference to the research process & the presentation of findings.

A previous edition is cited in Book for College Libraries, 3rd ed. Appropriate for students as well as professional writers, this textbook outlines techniques for researching a subject and assembling the components of a report. The sixth edition includes updated discussion of the internet and the library. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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**** Revised and updated edition (4th was in 1985) of the classic introduction to the techniques of research and effective writing and speaking, cited in BCL3 and Sheehy. Also a great pleasure to read. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The two authors of this book have had their professional career in history, JACQUES BARZUN in Modern Cultural, HENRY F. GRAFF in American Political and Diplomatic, both at Colombia University. They first collaborated in creating the course in historical method required of all first-year graduate students, and the material for it was and remains the core of The Modern Researcher.

Both scholars have published widely in periodicals of specialist and general interest and each has a list of influential books to his credit. Jacques Barzun's latest is From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural History. A summing up of his lifelong studies, it stayed on the best-seller list for weeks in 2000. Henry Graff's latest-almost simultaneous-are a third edition of his classic compendium The Presidents: A Reference History and Grover Cleveland, a biography.