Kinds of question – 29
To whom does religious fundamentalism in the United States
particularly appeal?
Weblogging has fundamentally altered the ways in which
information and knowledge are shared. Evaluate the
accuracy of this statement, addressing ‘how’ and ‘for whom’
this statement might apply.
Where, when
‘Where’ and ‘when’ query aspects of the location, time and duration
of objects and events. These questions do not commonly turn up
in the essay topics undergraduate students are asked to write on.
Nevertheless, they are invaluable questions to turn upon the topics
you are set, since your answer may well depend critically on whether
certain conditions of place, time and duration can be satisfied. If
asked, for example, to assess whether the ‘pacification’ programme in
the Vietnam War was a success, you might answer that it was, but
only for a certain period and in certain parts of the country. Being
able to specify times and places reliably may be just as important in
answering some academic questions as it is in a criminal trial. Asking
questions about ‘where’ and ‘when’ can also raise detailed issues of
distribution, extent, frequency, regularity and other important topics
in a variety of disciplines.
How
‘How’ can be interpreted in a number of ways. First it can be a
request for a description of a process (rather than of an object or
phenomenon):
How did General Douglas MacArthur honour his promise to
return to the Philippines during the Second World War?
How did Buddhism change as it travelled from India to
Japan?
How does Shakespeare achieve the integration of plot and
subplot in King Lear?
To whom does religious fundamentalism in the United States
particularly appeal?
Weblogging has fundamentally altered the ways in which
information and knowledge are shared. Evaluate the
accuracy of this statement, addressing ‘how’ and ‘for whom’
this statement might apply.
Where, when
‘Where’ and ‘when’ query aspects of the location, time and duration
of objects and events. These questions do not commonly turn up
in the essay topics undergraduate students are asked to write on.
Nevertheless, they are invaluable questions to turn upon the topics
you are set, since your answer may well depend critically on whether
certain conditions of place, time and duration can be satisfied. If
asked, for example, to assess whether the ‘pacification’ programme in
the Vietnam War was a success, you might answer that it was, but
only for a certain period and in certain parts of the country. Being
able to specify times and places reliably may be just as important in
answering some academic questions as it is in a criminal trial. Asking
questions about ‘where’ and ‘when’ can also raise detailed issues of
distribution, extent, frequency, regularity and other important topics
in a variety of disciplines.
How
‘How’ can be interpreted in a number of ways. First it can be a
request for a description of a process (rather than of an object or
phenomenon):
How did General Douglas MacArthur honour his promise to
return to the Philippines during the Second World War?
How did Buddhism change as it travelled from India to
Japan?
How does Shakespeare achieve the integration of plot and
subplot in King Lear?