This LibGuide offers a general overview of writing a Literature Review and this page shows some of the differences each department and professor may have. Make sure you always follow what your professor and syllabus have required.
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Academic writing within the discipline of history will primarily ask a student to participate first-hand in the historical research process, interpreting your findings to add new perspectives to an existing area of study or to answer a question about the past. Research papers are one of the most commonly used methods for presenting this information in a history course.
Your GOALS when writing a historical research paper include the following:
(retrieved from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/historiography)
Essentially, historiography is the writing of history, or the writing of "the history of history" by historians. For the purposes of this course, you need to know that a historiographic essay: