In conjunction with the American Historical Association Meeting in January, the Cliopatria Group Blog presented its fifth annual awards for history blogging. For a roundup of all of those recognized, you can access a description of awarded here.
For me, of those receiving awards, one stood out. Heather Cox Richardson, assistant professor at UMASS-Amherst, received an award for the best series of posts on The Historical Society blog site. Her posts are entitled Richardson’s Rules of Order, which are intended to serve as a guide for the students who sit before us in history classes. And they are priceless in their tone and directness.
So if you need help telling students why they should study history, how to take notes in a history course, the appropriate behavior to display in class, how to read for a college history class, how they should approach discussion sections, how to write successful research papers, what plagiarism is and why it is important, and all the things that professors do when they are not standing in front of a class. It’s all in there!
So, unless you want to come up with all of this stuff yourselves, check out what Heather has to say, right here.
