Section outline
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- Write a balanced answers - think of different concepts and themes you need to consider in your answer before you write it
- Refer to all the sources you are asked to and your own knowledge which includes facts and your opinions based on what you know.
- Remember to consider the provenance (the origin) of sources:
- WHAT does the source tell us?
- WHEN was it produced? At the time? Years after? Centuries after?
- WHO wrote it?
- What is their point of view?
- WHY was it produced?
Essay writing
- Read the essay title carefully.
- Your essay should contain:
- Point – where you describe the different events or make an observation from a source.
- Evidence – where you give your own knowledge or evidence from the source.
- Explanation – where you analyse the causes and/or consequences of these events
- Link - keep referring back to the question so that your answer is relevant.