Department Of History

Course Details

Course Title	ACADEMIC WRITING IN HISTORY
Semester	III
Course Type	SEC
Course Level	200-299
Course Code	KU3SECHIS201
Credits	3
Total Hours	3
Lecture	3 Hours/Week
Practical / Internship	Nil
Tutorial	1 Hour/Week
Continuous Evaluation (CE)	25 Marks
End Semester Examination (ESE)	50 Marks
Total Marks	75 Marks
Duration of ESE	2 Hours

Course Description

The paper aims to introduce students to the content and relevance of the research-oriented academic world. As research continues to expand across different fields, researchers must remain updated with recent developments. The course introduces the conditions, norms, and standards of academic writing while emphasizing academic ethics. It also familiarizes students with research methodology, the structuring of academic content, tools of analysis, referencing styles, citation methods, and other essential aspects of scholarly writing.

Course Outcomes

CO No.	Expected Outcome
CO1	Familiarise students with the concept of academic writing and develop the ability to distinguish academic writing from other forms of writing.
CO2	Understand the patterns, principles, and rules governing academic writing.
CO3	Develop a thorough understanding of academic ethics.
CO4	Promote knowledge of the historical evolution and objectives of academic writing.
CO5	Acquaint students with academic writing methods, citation practices, and bibliographical techniques.

Course Contents

Module	Title	Contents	Hours
I	Need for Academic Writing	Evolution – The Concept of Journal. Seminar Method – Ranke. Annales.	15
II	Methodology of Academic Writing	Textual Analysis – Hermeneutics – Text, In-text. Context – Barthes – Derrida and Lacan. Categorisation – ISSN, ISBN, CARE List, Peer Reviewed, Impact Factor.	15
III	Referencing	Citation – Plagiarism Checking Software – Turnitin – Urkund – Zotero – In-text References. MLA, Chicago Manual, APA and Harvard Styles. Footnotes, Endnotes, Methods of Exposition, Indexing, Glossary, Appendices and Bibliographical Aids.	15
IV	Teacher Specific Module	Conduct classroom presentations, discussions, debates, book reviews and similar academic activities to develop students' interest in the course.	5

Essential Readings

Sl. No.	Reference
1	Modern Humanities Research Association, MHRA Style Guide: A Handbook for Authors, Editors and Writers of Theses, London, 2008.
2	Dunleavy, P., Authoring a PhD, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
3	Raworth, K., Writing Terms of Reference for Research, Oxfam, 2005.
4	Turabian, K.L., Student's Guide to Writing College Papers, University of Chicago Press, 2019.
5	Muguiro, N., Citations in Interdisciplinary Research Articles, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
6	Pears, R. & Shields, Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
7	Coghill, A.M. & Garson, L.R., ACS Style Guide, Oxford University Press, 2006.
8	Lenburg, J., The Facts on File Guide to Research, Infobase Publishing, 2009.
9	Letherby, G., Scott, J. & Williams, M., Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research, SAGE, 2012.
10	Thomas, C.G., Research Methodology and Scientific Writing, Springer Nature, 2021.
11	Yates, S. & Open University, Doing Social Science Research, Sage, London, 2004.
12	Barzun, J. & Graff, H., The Modern Researcher, 6th Edition, 2003.
13	Best, J.W. & Kahn, J.V., Research in Education, Pearson India, 1989.
14	Oman, C., On the Writing of History, Routledge, 2018.
15	Chartier, Roger, "Texts, Symbols and Frenchness", in Cultural History: Between Practice and Representations, Polity Press, 1988.
16	Darnton, Robert, "The Great Cat Massacre", in The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, 1984.
17	Elton, G.R., The Practice of History, Fontana Press, 1997.
18	Evans, Richard J., In Defence of History, Granta Books, 1999.
19	Gaddis, John Lewis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, Oxford University Press, 2004.
20	Jenkins, Keith, Rethinking History, Routledge, 2003.
21	Lynn Hunt, Writing History in the Global Era, W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
22	Ricoeur, Paul, Time and Narrative, University of Chicago Press, 1984.
23	Southgate, Beverley, History: What and Why?, Pearson Education, 2017.
24	Stuart Hughes, H., History as Art and as Science, Joanna Cotler Books, 1964.
25	Taylor, Charles, Interpretation and the Sciences of Man, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
26	White, Hayden, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Assessment Rubrics

Evaluation Type	Marks
End Semester Evaluation	50
Continuous Evaluation Test Paper – 1 Test Paper – 2 Assignment Seminar Book / Article Review Viva-Voce Field Work	25
Total	75