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20147
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English
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Document Editing : Helping Students Quench Their Thirst
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Religious Educator
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2009
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10
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2
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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77-85
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This article is adapted from an address at the Mormon History Association Conference in Sacramento, California, in May 2008. Steven C. Harper talks about some of his experiences teaching a course at BYU in working with historical documents as a source of information. His students come to realize that "the historical record is wildly uneven, rich and sparse, true and false, illuminating and deceptive." The students learn "that the past is mediated to us by the severely limited historical record and our own cultural assumptions and human limitations."