Hello
I was wondering whether I could have some advice on the major work. I'm thinking of doing it on the changing interpretations on Chairman Mao's role in the Cultural Revolution but I'm not too sure on how to structure the essay. I think it's best to do it by concepts or by the questions from the syllabus, but I'm not too sure on how to apply it to my current question. I'm sorry for the broad question, but any advice would be really helpful!
Thanks
Hey,
Unfortunately, I don’t know much about Chairman Mao but I can try to help you with the structure.
I did my essay on two different conflicting interpretations of Holocaust perpetrators motivations. So for my essay, I had a paragraph on each historian’s context, methodology and then how this influenced their interpretations. So, my paragraphs were based on the questions, Who are the historians?’, and ‘How has history been constructed and recorded over time?’.
One of my friends did changing interpretations of Joan of Arc and I think that she did a paragraph for each of her historians with interpretations/criticism, methodology, etc. in them. You can definitely do it conceptually as well (I’m not too sure what concepts though because I don’t know your historians) and that could be a sophisticated way to write your essay.
Ultimately, your structure, and amount of paragraphs is personal and unique to your project. For example, my essay had eight paragraphs while Susie’s had 2 large paragraphs (conceptual, each with one major idea).
Hope this helps! (so sorry it’s so late)