title: A Practical Handbook for Writing in the Humanities
author: Michael Milam
description: "I LOVE this text, and want it immediately! It fills such a need for students, almost all of who struggle with writing papers in college. I have nothing but the highest praise for what this book accomplishes and achieves so effortlessly and with such fluidity."<br /><br />"I think this handbook is fantastic because of the way rules are illustrated with excellent, specific examples. I would adopt this text in a minute because Professor Milam has put his finger on a very serious problem in the Humanities... I am constantly frustrated with my students' writing level and I try to help them improve. If I had a text like this one I would put it to very good use."<br /><br />"I found myself wishing that my students had used this handbook before they wrote their papers, for it addresses many of the typical weaknesses that I saw in the papers."
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  # A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  
  
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  ### Salvatore Allosso and Dan Allosso
  
  
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  A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences by
  Salvatore F. Allosso and Dan Allosso is licensed under a [Creative Commons
  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
  License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), except where
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  # Contents
  
    * [Getting Started Writing](front-matter-001-introduction.xhtml)
  
  
  * [ 1\. Analyzing Texts, Taking Notes](chapter-001-chapter-1.xhtml)
  
  
  * [ 2\. Discovering a Topic, Preparing for Discussion](chapter-002-slug-2-discovering-a-topic-preparing-for-discussio