HEX -5

Question One: The Historiography Question


You really need to engage with the quote and refer back to it quite regularly.

Try to answer the question in the first paragraph and then analyse the quote in some detail from the second paragraph onwards.

Don’t spend the whole of the first papagraph taking the quote to pieces and leaving the marker wondering what your answer to the question actually is.

When the question says “use two other sources” they mean that it should be very clear in your answer that you have very detailed knowledge of two historians (different from the one in the quote) and how their contexts have influenced them & the way they write their history.

Most of the answers during our Term 3 “Festival of the Essay” were too short. It is highly unlikely that you would have developed a complex enough argument under 1200 words to get 24 or 25 /25. You should be aiming at 1,500 words by now!