Uncovering Human Agency
de Oliveira, L. C. “Nouns in History: Packaging Information, Expanding Explanations, and Structuring Reasoning.” The History Teacher, 43:2 (2010), 191-203.
de Oliveira, L. C. Knowing and Writing School History: The Language of Students’ Expository Writing and Teachers’ Expectations. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2011.
Read more on the language of history at Teachinghistory.org in “The Grammar of History Textbooks, Part I: Language Analysis” and “The Grammar of History Textbooks Part II: Questioning the Text.”
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