When the oral comes, you will be asked to comment on an extract from one of the documents. Now there is not only one way to do a good commentary. I find that the most common student weaknesses are
- not talking about the objective of the document
- not talking about the audience of the document
- not talking about what happened to the document and/or its ideas later in the historical period.
- Not talking about how typical the document is, or is not.
I realize that sometimes you can have *too much* advice about how to do commentaries, but this document which one of my colleagues produced seems useful.
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