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HSC Stuff => HSC History => HSC Humanities Stuff => HSC Subjects + Help => HSC Extension History => Topic started by: j_asf on July 18, 2017, 12:25:06 am
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Hi all!
So my major work is due next week, and I have no clue as to how to go about the source analysis in my bibliography. I know that it wouldn't be the same as Modern/Ancient, but am soo confused as to how to begin!
Any tips?
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Hey,
So the source analysis isn't as big as what you'd do in Modern (I think, I don't do modern). It's 600 words max, so your looking at around 200 words each, but one of mine was bigger then the others. You need to do your three most valuable sources (so for me, that was my historians books, and a youtube lecture on the topic). You basically have to comment on the strengths/weaknesses, reliability and usefulness of the three sources.
So, some of the things that I look at for reliability I looked at their:
Academic qualifications (one was a professor at Harvard)
Methodology (if they used a lot of sources, one was selective in their use of sources, etc.)
Biases (one had a father in a concentration camp)
Usefulness:
How it had helped me in terms of the project (what I did and didn't get out of this source for my essay)
You've also got to make sure that your making a judgement thought the source analysis on the reliability and usefulness of the source (I think the A band was makes a sophisticated judgement)
Hope this was helpful! Good luck for the project! :D :D
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Hey,
So the source analysis isn't as big as what you'd do in Modern (I think, I don't do modern). It's 600 words max, so your looking at around 200 words each, but one of mine was bigger then the others. You need to do your three most valuable sources (so for me, that was my historians books, and a youtube lecture on the topic). You basically have to comment on the strengths/weaknesses, reliability and usefulness of the three sources.
So, some of the things that I look at for reliability I looked at their:
Academic qualifications (one was a professor at Harvard)
Methodology (if they used a lot of sources, one was selective in their use of sources, etc.)
Biases (one had a father in a concentration camp)
Usefulness:
How it had helped me in terms of the project (what I did and didn't get out of this source for my essay)
You've also got to make sure that your making a judgement thought the source analysis on the reliability and usefulness of the source (I think the A band was makes a sophisticated judgement)
Hope this was helpful! Good luck for the project! :D :D
Couldn't have said it better myself! Awesome work Katie :)
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thanks for the help guys, really appreciate it :)
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Hi all!
So my major work is due next week, and I have no clue as to how to go about the source analysis in my bibliography. I know that it wouldn't be the same as Modern/Ancient, but am soo confused as to how to begin!
Any tips?
Exactly what I wanted clarification on - you're a star for asking it!
Hey,
So the source analysis isn't as big as what you'd do in Modern (I think, I don't do modern). It's 600 words max, so your looking at around 200 words each, but one of mine was bigger then the others. You need to do your three most valuable sources (so for me, that was my historians books, and a youtube lecture on the topic). You basically have to comment on the strengths/weaknesses, reliability and usefulness of the three sources.
So, some of the things that I look at for reliability I looked at their:
Academic qualifications (one was a professor at Harvard)
Methodology (if they used a lot of sources, one was selective in their use of sources, etc.)
Biases (one had a father in a concentration camp)
Usefulness:
How it had helped me in terms of the project (what I did and didn't get out of this source for my essay)
You've also got to make sure that your making a judgement thought the source analysis on the reliability and usefulness of the source (I think the A band was makes a sophisticated judgement)
Hope this was helpful! Good luck for the project! :D :D
Thanks for the clarification! You did a great job of organising my approach that I had in my head under clear subtitles - which is amazing!
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thanks all! this was really helpful :)