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Karras, Ray W.

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ERIC Number: EJ538423

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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ISSN: ISSN-0882-228X

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Teaching "Average" Students to Make Historical Arguments. On Teaching.

Karras, Ray W.

OAH Magazine of History, v11 n1 p34-36 Fall 1996

Outlines a step-by-step process through which students can construct, defend, and test historical arguments. These include to support the claim with facts and analyze their relevance, to oppose the claim with additional facts, to rebut this claim with additional facts, and to ask for new information to test the claim. (MJP)

Descriptors: Credibility, Educational Strategies, Historiography, History, History Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Secondary Education, Student Development, Student Improvement, Student Research, Thinking Skills, Undergraduate Study, Writing Improvement, Writing Processes

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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