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AS History OCR - Provenance

The dreaded P word. Right, I'm not quite sure what it is exactly, something to do with background information, or how to weave it into my answers to get the top kinda marks... I'm doing the 2582 Sources Paper btw (Nazi Germany).

Reply 1

helen_catherine

Ah the dreaded provenance! Its to do with the source author's backgroung/beliefs etc and how these would have affected what is being presented in the source. To "weave it in" I would use the point from the source to prove your statements (if that makes sense!) but then point out possible bias.
Hope that makes some sense!
:smile:

Reply 2

Pike

We do OCR. The AS handout from my teacher last year says
"The word 'provenance' means where the source comes from - e.g. who it is by & how that is relevant to what the source says, the context in which it was written (or drawn for a cartoon) & how that relates to what the source says.
Thinking about the provenance of sources in important if you are to evaluate them properly. Provenance should be quite an important part of your answer on the AS document paper (comparison question). Don't tag it on at the end in a separate paragraph all of its own. Bring it in naturally as each issue is identified and the Sources compared as evidence for wharever you are finding out about."

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