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Date Posted: 21:49:47 05/06/03 Tue
Author: Mr John D Clare
Subject: Using facts to answer a question
In reply to: 's message, "Please explain..." on 21:38:54 05/06/03 Tue

I did not mean that anything I wrote was wrong or irrelevant. I simply meant that you might not be able to copy it out as an answer - it depended on the exact wording of your question.
This is the key to GCSE - manipulating (twisting) what you know to fit the question. You must look at the question to see exactly what is being asked, and then change ('tweak') the information as necessary to make it answer the question.
eg
1. if the question is 'Why was Trotsky important?' your answer is fairly easy because you will start: 'Trotsky was important for seven reasons...' then go through the seven points. Nevertheless, you must still remember that at the end of every point to EXPLAIN how this point made Trotsky important - how it contributed to making him important: 'This made Trotsky very important because...'
2. if your question is 'How important was Trotsky?' your answer can also follow much the same pattern. But you will start 'Trotsky was very important because he contributed seven very important things to the revolution'. Then go through the seven points - but remember that at the end of every point you must EXPLAIN whether this contribution was very important, quite important, not very important etc. And you will conclude: 'Having seen what Trotsky did, I believe that he was ??? important because...'
3. if the question says: 'Do you agree that Trotsky was the most important man in the Revolution?' you will need to address it in a different way still.
First, you say: 'There are some things that make it seem that Trotsky was VERY important...' and you talk about the 7 things.
Next, you say: 'But many other people were important...' - and you will have to talk about people like Lenin and Stalin etc, and what THEY achieved.
Then you conclude: 'In conclusion therefore...' and you have to write a paragraph of EXPLANATION comparing the contribution made by Trotsky against the contribution made by others.

You have to take the basic info, then add explanations to EXPLAIN how what you are saying is answering the question you have been asked.

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