Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.

Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline , and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject .

Historiography is about the writing of history and the use of historical methods .