Approaches/Aims/Purpose...same shit different smell? (1 Viewer)

[laracroft]

ok, im jsut studying for ext rite,....and i'm finding that all the areas of the sylabus are tying together, that i really can't differntiate very clrealy between the differnt sections.
like for example, when a historian is writing history, the have certain aims and purposes in mind, thus isn't that their approach?
and aren't these aims also going to influence their construction.
so i don't get how i can specifically answer a question, so just about historians appraoches....
thanks guys,
good luck for friday

 

[gemita]

Yes and no....I guess it is all inter-related to some extent, which is a good thing because it means you can draw heaps into your essay and make it nice and long and impressive looking . But aims is not the same as approaches. Aims INFLUENCE the approaches of the historian, but you have to focus on what their actual approaches were ( the techniques they used etc) as opposed to their aims.