Common mistakes in History essay

1. Common mistakes found in
History Midterm essays

2. Overall mistakes
• Lack of showing causation (only mention things, but not giving meaning to
them)
• Showing disjointed information
• Lack of accuracy in spelling, punctuation, and grammar
• Giving no context explanation and lack of provenance (5w+1h)
• Showing irrelevant information (not answering the question)
• Overusing a word/phrase
• No conclusion
• Only paraphrase, not showing analysis
• Subjective argumentation
• Poor strategy (time management and no priority to get higher score)

3. Common Mistakes on answering Question Number 1

4. Common Mistakes on answering Question Number 2

5. Common Mistakes on answering Question Number 3

6. Common Mistakes on answering Question Number 4