These analytical goals reflect the academic and disciplinary demands placed on students as they use historical source documents to understand a particular history individual, place, and time. Identifying conflicting accounts or ideas.“Sourcing” (the focus of the previous resource) – including drawing on background knowledge to contextualize the source in a specific time place.Close reading of a variety of historical texts.According to the Stanford History Education Group, the components of this analysis include: OverviewĪs discussed in Working with Historical Sources, reasoning with historical sources requires a fine grained analysis to determine whether or not they can be used as evidence in support of an argument. An ordered list of the sequence can be found in part one. These resources are designed to be used individually to help define inquiry questions for use in Lesson Study cycles or in sequence for background research in the Study phase of a cycle. If you need to change your Dropbox account associated with RefWorks, see these directions on how to do so.This is the fourth in a series of eight resources on historical argumentation written especially for the Lesson Study Group at Mills College by educator Stan Pesick. Articles currently in your ProQuest RefWorks folder in Dropbox will remain. RefWorks will no longer sync your files with Dropbox. In the "General" area, scroll down and click the “Unlink” button in the Dropbox area of the page. To disconnect your RefWorks account from Dropbox:ģ. All of your articles (regardless of what Collection they are filed in) are saved to your ProQuest RefWorks folder in your Apps folder.Īfter you first set up your connection from RefWorks to Dropbox, newly uploaded documents you save to RefWorks are automatically saved in Dropbox as well as. When you remove a document from your RefWorks library, it will be removed from Dropbox as well.
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