This document provides instructions for referencing sources in an essay response. Students will receive one mark for each relevant piece of referenced information from a source, up to 4 marks. The referenced facts must be both relevant and detailed to the essay question. Source marks will only be given for historical opinions cited from sources, not simple facts. An example is provided of both a correct and relevant source reference as well as a correct but irrelevant reference.

2. • You will get one mark for each relevant piece
of referenced information (up to 4 marks)
e.g. James Walvin argues in his book
‘Questioning Slavery’ that…
NB: Sources cannot be used in intro/conclusion
• Your facts must be relevant and detailed
• Source marks only given for historical opinion
– not simple points of knowledge

3. QUESTION EXAMPLE
To what extent were the Suffragettes’ actions the main factor
in helping women gain the right to vote?
CORRECT AND RELEVANT SOURCE FACT
“Jad Adams, in the book ‘Women and the Vote’, says the
Suffragettes used various tactics such as arson and
vandalism and this forced the government to listen to them.”
CORRECT BUT NOT RELEVANT SOURCE FACT
“In her book ‘Votes for Women’, Paula Bartley says that the
proper name for the Suffragettes was the Women’s Social
and Political Union.”