Ready History Unit 2 Lesson 9 Structure of Texts Used by Historians How information is organized within a text determines its structure Most texts used by historians reflect some basic structures ID: 711125
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Types of Texts
Literacy
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History Unit 2, Lesson 9Slide2
Structure of Texts Used by Historians
How information is organized within a text determines its structure.
Most texts used by historians reflect some basic structures:
1. Descriptive – What happened? What was the case?
2. Explanatory - Why did it happen? Why was it the case?
3. Argumentative/Justificatory – I believe that this is the
case;
I believe this is the
explanation
because....
Narratives—historical accounts—use both descriptive and explanatory structures.
History textbooks commonly combine description and explanation, but rarely argumentation/justification!Slide3
Media – how historians access texts
Types of media often used by historians:
Traditional print (books, journals, magazines, newspapers)
Radio
Television
DVD
Internet
Photography/artSlide4
Genre – general
c
ategories of texts used by
historians
Memoir – a record of events based on personal
observation,
similar to autobiography
Biography/autobiographyHistorical fictionMapData table or graphTextbookPolitical cartoonNews storyArtworkInterview
Video
Documentary
Legal document
Legislation
Photograph
Blog
TweetSlide5
Sources – Primary Vs. Secondary
According to historians, PRIMARY sources are artifacts, documents,
recordings,
or other sources of information that were created at the time under study (i.e., news story, interview, legal document, etc.).
According to historians, SECONDARY sources use primary and interpretative documents as evidence in creating a historical interpretation (i.e., biography, documentary, etc.).
TERTIARY sources are those that use secondary and perhaps primary sources. Textbooks can usually be thought of as tertiary sources. The information in them does not come directly from primary and interpretive documents.Slide6
Example of Texts:
U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
1. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution – primary source; genre – legislation
2. Photo of Lyndon Johnson in the White House – primary source; genre – photograph
3. Article from
New York Times
describing U.S. troop deployment (1968) – primary source; genre – news storySlide7
Examples of Texts:
U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
4. Caputo, Philip,
A Rumor of War
(1977) – secondary source; genre – memoir
5.
Vietnam: A Television History
(1983) – secondary source; genre – documentary