Inquiry Skills and Sources
1 Primary and secondary sources/evident
Types of evidence: primary and secondary
2 Recording source details
Recording source details for a book
Recording source details for a website
Recording source details for a documentary
3 Searching for sources of relevant information
Searching in books
- Contents page
- Index
- Headings
- Topic sentences
Searching the internet
- Key words in the question
- Checking website reading levels
- Some other useful websites
- Quick searching on a webpage
- Using Wikipedia
Searching for primary sources
4 Source reliability
- Books
- Websites
- Other sources of information
o Historical documentaries
o Historical films
o History magazines or journals
o Electronic databases/encyclopaedia
- Secondary source reliability
o Some final website reliability issues to be aware of
5 Primary source analysis
o Written sources
o Newspapers
o Visual sources
o Altered images
o Analysing political cartoons
- Source reliability: fact versus opinion
o Detecting opinions
o When FACT and OPINION are harder to detect
6 Secondary source analysis
- Usefulness
- Selecting relevant information/annotations
7 Inquiry source analysis template and exemplar
Essay Writing Skills
8 Essay structure
- Review of a basic literacy skill
9 Paragraph structure
10 Planning
11 Paragraph topic sentences
12 Paragraph structure activities
13 Paragraph critiquing and marking
14 Essay introductions (and conclusions)
15 Essay planning and writing summary
16 Annotated essay exemplar
- Easy marking code
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