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Learning Goal | Demonstrate | Relate | Analyze | Evaluate | |||||
Key Terms | define describe restate summarize | connect find an example compare/contrast classify | deconstruct organize attribute examine identify | assess explain justify opinion | |||||
Definition | Show what you know | Show relationship between concepts, eras, themes | Show a text’s purpose and how it achieves the purpose— | Show whether theories, claims, or positions are good or bad, proved or not proved | Key Terms | define describe restate summarize | connect find an example compare/contrast classify | deconstruct organize attribute examine identify | assess explain justify opinion |
The words and goals in the chart above are examples from a political science writing center, so you might not find them in your assignment; look for terms terms like these. Within every discipline, and even every course, they will be different, and instructors have their favorites. Figure out what the terms are, and use them to discover what the learning goal is.
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