Extended Writing
Although many historians now use the medium of television to advance their arguments and interpretations of history, the construction of written accounts remains fundamental to their craft. It also lies at the heart of current assessment systems, which means that young people similarly need to be able to create effective historical accounts of different kinds. The quality of students’ writing depends on the processes of selection and organisation as well as on effective communication within the appropriate genre, and the materials in this section deal with all three dimensions. Read more
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing
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‘Weaving’ knowledge
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What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing
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Deepening Year 9’s knowledge for better causation arguments
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‘One big cake’: substantive knowledge of the mid-Tudor crisis in Year 7 students’ writing
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The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
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Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode
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Training for the marathon: history at Michaela
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‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge
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From road map to thought map: helping students theorise the nature of change
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'I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’
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Historical scholarship and feedback
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Effective essay introductions
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New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative
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History as a foreign language
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Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’?
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Using nominalisation to develop written causal arguments
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Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills
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New, Novice or Nervous? 159: Writing history essays
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Pipes's punctuation and making complex historical claims
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