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Historical Skills: source, causation and interpretation technique
Quick questions on Source utility and reliability - CCEA GCSE History skills
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What is model judgement sentence?Show answer
"Source C is useful to a historian of Bloody Sunday because, as a marcher's account written days afterwards, it reveals how the nationalist community experienced and remembered the killings. Its purpose, to protest at the army's actions, makes it one-sided, but that one-sidedness is itself useful evidence of nationalist anger, even if it must be set against army and government accounts to build a full picture." This scores highly because it judges usefulness through origin and purpose, ties content to knowledge, and turns bias into a reason the source is useful rather than useless.
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What is the difference between usefulness and reliability? [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why is a biased source still useful? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Name the three lenses you use to judge a source. [3 marks]
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