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Peer reviewedStockton, Sharon – Written Communication, 1995
Finds that the explicit definition of writing in history is "argumentation" but that the implicit expectation is for narrative. Argues that this apparent contradiction highlights the central function of academic historical discourse: the establishment of an autonomous subject of meaning that speaks from outside history about a distant and…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, History
