Academic Languaging and Historical Thinking
Cultivating Students' Language Skills for Argument Writing

By (author) Jacob Steiss,Undarmaa Maamuujav

ISBN13: 9780472040087

Imprint: The University of Michigan Press

Publisher: The University of Michigan Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 19/01/2026

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Description
Academic Languaging and Historical Thinking prepares teachers to assess where students are in their written and critical thinking skills and to develop the art of teaching historical argumentative writing to students. The use of effective language to communicate historical, social, and civic arguments is a key competence future citizens need, and teaching writing through history is especially effective because of the grounded nature of historical documentation and the balance between clear facts and blurrier areas of interpretation. Starting with a pedagogical approach, the book takes readers through research on the relationship between language and writing, the ways that historians make claims and the kinds of evidence they use, and how to successfully find and evaluate sources. It then offers instructional activities and strategies that center around key disciplinary practices in historical argumentation: making claims, sourcing and integrating evidence, presenting reasoning, and addressing counterarguments. These activities can be easily modified for different teaching and learning contexts, including supporting multilingual learners of English. Whether readers are practicing teachers, pre-service teachers, or instructional coaches, this book will help them learn how to integrate academic language skills with argument writing instruction in history to teach students to be confident academic writers and competent language users.
List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Language, Thinking, and Historical Argumentation Chapter 2: Language Demands of and Support for Argumentation Chapter 3: Making a Claim for Historical Argumentation Chapter 4: Sourcing and Integrating Evidence Chapter 5: Reasoning to Advance a Historical Argument Chapter 6: Presenting and Addressing Counterarguments Conclusion References
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