Week 7

Question 1

Nested writing

Answer 1

Histories are “stories of stories”. There is an overarching story you are telling, with smaller stories from the past aligned within it to support your overall narrative. Nested writing is the skill of writing the framework to fit the pieces; and the pieces to fit the framework.

Question 2

Descriptive accounts

Answer 2

Can inform us of facts, or organize them thru periodization

Question 3

Narrative accounts

Answer 3

Look like description, but connects events together with stronger cause and effect statements.

Because of this, that happened