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History 4815/7815 - African History Through the Digital Medium: Writing & Citing

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On Digital History, Writing, and Citing

Berry, David M., ed. Understanding Digital Humanities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Burdick, Anne, ed. Digital Humanities. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012.
Cohen, Daniel J., and Roy Rosenzweig. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving,
and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2006.
Galgano, Michael J., J. Chris Arndt, and Raymond M. Hyser. Doing History: Research and
Writing in the Digital Age. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.
Warwick, Claire, Melissa M. Terras, and Julianne Nyhan. Digital Humanities in Practice.
London: Facet Publishing, 2012.
Weller, Toni. History in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Canseco, Grace. Inside Academic Writing: Understanding Audience and Becoming Part of an
Academic Community. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.
Rampolla, Mary Lynn. A Pocket Guide to Writing History. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford, 2010.
Storey, William Kelleher. Writing History: A Guide for Students. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999.
Swales, John M, and Christine B Feak. Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential
Tasks and Skills. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Sword, Helen. Stylish Academic Writing. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Trimble, John. Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing. 3rd ed. Englewood
Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 2010.
Zinsser, William Knowlton. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. New
York: HarperCollins, 2006.

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