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Our coursework has to be 3500-4000 words. Its pretty much finished, and i'm at around 3600 words. I'm not sure if i have included enough sources - we are supposed to have around 15 i think and i have 11 (6 secondary 5 primary) - i'm not sure how i ended up with more interpretations lol. In most regular essays i write less than most other people - but still achieve As and Bs. I could try and shove an extra primary source in there but i'm not sure if it would be much good. I wouldn't be disappointed with a B - but i would really like to achieve an A as i'm quite proud of what i have written
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Our coursework has to be 3500-4000 words. Its pretty much finished, and i'm at around 3600 words. I'm not sure if i have included enough sources - we are supposed to have around 15 i think and i have 11 (6 secondary 5 primary) - i'm not sure how i ended up with more interpretations lol. In most regular essays i write less than most other people - but still achieve As and Bs. I could try and shove an extra primary source in there but i'm not sure if it would be much good. I wouldn't be disappointed with a B - but i would really like to achieve an A as i'm quite proud of what i have written
Our coursework has to be 3500-4000 words. Its pretty much finished, and i'm at around 3600 words. I'm not sure if i have included enough sources - we are supposed to have around 15 i think and i have 11 (6 secondary 5 primary) - i'm not sure how i ended up with more interpretations lol. In most regular essays i write less than most other people - but still achieve As and Bs. I could try and shove an extra primary source in there but i'm not sure if it would be much good. I wouldn't be disappointed with a B - but i would really like to achieve an A as i'm quite proud of what i have written
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15 sources? Are you doing AQA History?
15 sources? Are you doing AQA History?
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no - OCR history
no - OCR history
Our word limit is the same. I'm not too sure how you would approach it. Has your teacher given you an indication of how in depth you need to do this?
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Wow, that seems like white a lot. For AQA A level history coursework we use 2 historians interpretations and 3 primary sources.
Our word limit is the same. I'm not too sure how you would approach it. Has your teacher given you an indication of how in depth you need to do this?
Wow, that seems like white a lot. For AQA A level history coursework we use 2 historians interpretations and 3 primary sources.
Our word limit is the same. I'm not too sure how you would approach it. Has your teacher given you an indication of how in depth you need to do this?
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Most of my essay just consists of analysing historian interpretations, most knowledge in there is just used for stating how accurate a historian is likely to be. I'm not sure how i would only talk about 2 interpretations - i have 3 factors i talk about with several historians backing up each.
Most of my essay just consists of analysing historian interpretations, most knowledge in there is just used for stating how accurate a historian is likely to be. I'm not sure how i would only talk about 2 interpretations - i have 3 factors i talk about with several historians backing up each.
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What is your essay question?
What is your essay question?
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Most of my essay just consists of analysing historian interpretations, most knowledge in there is just used for stating how accurate a historian is likely to be. I'm not sure how i would only talk about 2 interpretations - i have 3 factors i talk about with several historians backing up each.
Most of my essay just consists of analysing historian interpretations, most knowledge in there is just used for stating how accurate a historian is likely to be. I'm not sure how i would only talk about 2 interpretations - i have 3 factors i talk about with several historians backing up each.
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I'm not knocking you at all, but I find it depressing that opinions seem to be valued more than knowledge.
I'm not knocking you at all, but I find it depressing that opinions seem to be valued more than knowledge.
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If possible, I'd say that adding in 3-4 (even just primary sources) more might be a good idea... it isn't entirely based on sources, but in my class we definitely found that the people who got 30+ marks had used 15+ sources. I used 19 in the end and my teacher said that it was a good balance, but I found that (once or twice) I could find a primary source which initially seemed useful, but which had a big flaw which I could discredit fairly quickly and go back in support of whichever source I had been going for before. That might be a way to demonstrate wider knowledge 
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I'm not knocking you at all, but I find it depressing that opinions seem to be valued more than knowledge.
I'm not knocking you at all, but I find it depressing that opinions seem to be valued more than knowledge.
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Our coursework has to be 3500-4000 words. Its pretty much finished, and i'm at around 3600 words. I'm not sure if i have included enough sources - we are supposed to have around 15 i think and i have 11 (6 secondary 5 primary) - i'm not sure how i ended up with more interpretations lol. In most regular essays i write less than most other people - but still achieve As and Bs. I could try and shove an extra primary source in there but i'm not sure if it would be much good. I wouldn't be disappointed with a B - but i would really like to achieve an A as i'm quite proud of what i have written
Our coursework has to be 3500-4000 words. Its pretty much finished, and i'm at around 3600 words. I'm not sure if i have included enough sources - we are supposed to have around 15 i think and i have 11 (6 secondary 5 primary) - i'm not sure how i ended up with more interpretations lol. In most regular essays i write less than most other people - but still achieve As and Bs. I could try and shove an extra primary source in there but i'm not sure if it would be much good. I wouldn't be disappointed with a B - but i would really like to achieve an A as i'm quite proud of what i have written
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I take your point but I fear that the balance has swung a little too far in this direction since I did my history degree. Then, historiography was perhaps too much of an afterthought; now it appears to be the only thought. 😁
I take your point but I fear that the balance has swung a little too far in this direction since I did my history degree. Then, historiography was perhaps too much of an afterthought; now it appears to be the only thought. 😁
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I would try add a few more sources - what I did in mine for OCR was I would use a primary source and then either defend/argue against it with a secondary, or use a secondary and prove/disprove it with a primary, because that helps develop analysis in your coursework as you’re putting the sources to work! Good luck
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