• Purpose: What is it for? Why was the book or article written? • Usefulness: What does it do for your research? • Reliability: Is the information accurate? Do other sources support the conclusions?
Evaluate Audience: Who is the intended audience (students, educators, the general public, experts) for the book? Is it written for someone with a small or large amount of knowledge on the subject? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..….. 6. Evaluate Purpose: What appears to be the purpose for the book? Is it to inform, persuade, entertain, report, or refute?
History GCSE Paper 2 The following are the types of question you will come across in the source based paper 2 • What is the MESSAGE of? • How are these sources SIMILAR/DIFFERENT? • How USEFUL is this source? • HOW FAR does this source PROVE • WHY was this source published? • How far do you TRUST the source?
Base your analysis on ideas that Beavan provides; don’t speculate on aspects of Beavan’s life that are not documented. Your goal is to create a logical, well-supported analysis that explores Beavan’s identity, actions, and/or motivations, identifying him either as an example of American culture OR an example of a type of person who might exist in any culture. Your thesis statement (claim) should be a general answer to the prompt, with each body paragraph serving as a reason that supports this main claim. Within the paragraphs, offer evidence (details from the book) that logically demonstrate that your thesis is supported by the writing in the book. Audience Assume that your audience is a college-educated student or scholar who has read or viewed No Impact Man.
The punctuation marks are fine and good in each sentence. 4. Point of view and Characterization * Who speaks in this passage. The author speaks in the passage and while we the audeience listens. * How does this passage make us react.
The rhetorical appeals that make these arguments persuasive often are quite obvious. Other kinds of writing also rely on rhetorical appeals—and therefore are persuasive—but they may employ those appeals in a more subtle way. Your task for this assignment is first to choose a piece of writing that is not, on the surface, an argument. Then, analyze it to find the rhetorical appeals (and therefore the subtle agenda) embedded
While some subjects provide exercise books for you to work in, others may require you to use a file. While files give more flexibility in terms of what you put into them there are one or two points that you need to be aware of: Files should be well organized with dividers splitting up one area of a subject from another. Rather than carrying a number of heavy files to or from school it is better to use one file for transporting papers and keep your main storage files at home. There is nothing more distressing than a file containing two years worth of notes going missing in the last month before I/GCSE. Frequently you will be required to hand in work which you have completed using
EDUCATON TODAY “The Truth about Columbus”, from New York: The New Press gives an audience the chance to look into education. It is not just widening the view on Columbus and other mislead or mistold adventures, but more giving us an insight into how little students are actually learning in schools, and in that minuscule amount of information there are twists, untruths , and lies. I myself have known for an extensive time that Columbus did not truly discover America. Coming across one piece of misleading or wrong information is typical. But after reading this I can raise the question, Are we actually learning our history?
For example, how was it for someone who did not get an education or who was very religious? Looking at all viewpoints, this would be best for this part of history and life experience. Trustworthiness has to do with the question/questions being asked. Since it is a life experience and it does show a little history backing the story up then I would say it is a trustworthy document. It is a textbook source as well.
Not many people stop to question if the information they are reading or being taught is factual. While the events Loewen points out may have some discrepancies in US History lower-learning textbooks; this does not mean all textbooks are incorrect. If anyone were to research any single US historical event he would end up finding out information he may have not been privy to through textbooks. Keep in mind, to incorporate every detail into one United States (US) History textbook is an unfathomable task. Students wouldn’t be able to carry the textbook and it would take years for teachers to deliver them information to him.