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"provide evidence to support your answer"

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Spreadbury:
what exactly counts as evidence to the examiners? I suppose quotes from historian's would be an obvious way, but how else?

Greggler:
For your extended responses you want dates, statistics, events, the actions of important people and in general, things such as important documents etc. are considered evidence
For extended responses you need to make sure that you're not telling a story or making unsubstantiated comments.

For example if you say that 'revolutionary fervor grew amongst the working class.' this would not be enough..

You need to back it up with your 'evidence' in this case you would go on to say 's a result of the massacre of x number of innocents on 'Bloody Sunday' by the Tsar, paired with the inadequate 'october manifesto' which failed to meet the demands of the workers who lived in cramped housing/starving (perhaps provide a stat here). In this single sentence you would have made a substantiated point which demonstrates the plight of the working class and backs it up with evidence in the form of events and stats.

I would stay away from using historians perspectives in extended responses, save up historian quotes for you document/image analysis where you get the 10 mark question where you must provide different views.

I hope i've helped. If i've confused you or need more in depth help feel free to pm me or something and i'll do my best to help. I did revs last year (china and russia) and it was and probably still is my favourite subject.

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