History · Historical skills (by paper)

ARGUE — Evaluating arguments (Paper 3, HL)

History · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. Evaluating arguments and the Paper 3 setup

   HL only: the regional study, the two-essay evaluative paper, and what evaluating historians' arguments means.

2. The anatomy of an argument

   Identifying a claim, its evidence and its assumptions, and setting competing interpretations against each other.

3. The evaluative essay

   Weighing an argument's strengths against its limitations to reach a substantiated judgement.