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damecj:
Hey,
I'm struggling with my practice essay on the construction of history. It has to do with how sources contribute to new forms of history. I'm not sure how to structure and what my main points should be
sudodds:
--- Quote from: damecj on March 17, 2017, 08:05:17 am ---Hey,
I'm struggling with my practice essay on the construction of history. It has to do with how sources contribute to new forms of history. I'm not sure how to structure and what my main points should be
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Hi damecj!
It's a bit tricky for me to give a definitive answer to this without seeing the source (and as ext is such an individualist subject). I'd say the best way to go about it is to carefully read through the source and work out what are the key reasons that it is putting forward in regards to the issue. You should do this even if you're not struggling to think of topics, because your essay must be consistently intergrating the source no matter what.
Then take these issues addressed in the source and make this the focus of each of your paragraphs. So for eg lets say the source discusses the role of new research and archival technology, that would be the focus of one of your paragraphs.
In the end, as long as you are consistently intergrating the source (and your two related sources!) and NOT writing a chronology, your structure is up to you :) (a blessing and a curse haha)
Hope this helps! Good luck 😊
(just a suggestion though on something you could mention - social history. As new perspectives are explored and uncovered, by looking at sources not typically explored, new forms of history are similarly uncovered - feminist/race/class/lgbt history. 😊 this was the focus of one of my paragraphs in my major work and it is super interesting!)
jenna.ridgway:
Hello,
For my history extension project, I am currently doing the 'history of the anti-vivisection movement in the UK'. My teacher is always telling us to "narrow down!!" so does anyone think that this topic is too broad? Should I narrow down on a particular set of dates rather than trying to cover it all? I thought I could cover everything, but obviously I'll do whatever gets me the best marks.
Thanks,
Jenna. :)
sudodds:
--- Quote from: jenna.ridgway on April 07, 2017, 08:39:07 am ---Hello,
For my history extension project, I am currently doing the 'history of the anti-vivisection movement in the UK'. My teacher is always telling us to "narrow down!!" so does anyone think that this topic is too broad? Should I narrow down on a particular set of dates rather than trying to cover it all? I thought I could cover everything, but obviously I'll do whatever gets me the best marks.
Thanks,
Jenna. :)
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Hey! I'm not going to pretend to know much about the anti-vivisection movement in the UK however I do think I can give you a few pointers in regards to narrowing down your thesis :)
So you say you're doing your major work on "the history of the anti-vivisection movement" however you should actually be doing it on the historiography of the anti-vivisection movement. Extension history isn't bothered by what the history is, but instead how and why it is constructed in a particular way and how/why constructions have changed. Thus, instead of trying to narrow down your thesis to particular dates - a section of the history - instead maybe narrow it down to the particular historiographical construct/concept/movement that have impacted the writings of the anti-vivisection movement.
So for example lets say someone was interested in looking at Pocahontas within their major work. Rather than doing their major work on the "history of Pocahontas," a better major work would look at something like the impact of post-colonial history/orientalism/disneyfication upon the representations of Pocahontas.
Hope this makes sense! Let me know if you need help with anything else :)
Susie
av-angie-er:
Hi there! I've been really struggling to develop a clear and sophisticated question for my major work. I'm interested in investigating the role of imaginative reenactment in historical works, reflecting a lot of the ideas of Hayden White and Simon Schama about how the sort of 'novelisation' of history is inevitable, but doesn't necessarily compromise historicity and can even be beneficial for a greater understanding of the past. I'd like to use examples from historical novels and television shows, particularly about Anne Boleyn since she's one of the most 'characterised' historical figures of all time, that show how history can be told through narratives based on reliable evidence rather than just traditional empiricism, making it a kind of comparison between the works of academic historians and historical novelists. I feel like a topic like this has a lot of different aspects and I'm not sure how to condense it into a question. Any ideas? Sorry it's such a broad question, any advice would be super helpful! :)
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