Slow Writing
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Several historians believe Germany was responsible for starting WWI due to its policy of "Welt Politik" and evidence from diplomatic papers like the "Blank Cheque", which guaranteed support for Austria in the event of war. However, German historians at the time refuted these claims despite Germany accepting guilt in the Treaty of Versailles. Later historians like Gooch argued guilt should be shared among the major European powers, as hardships from the treaty created sympathy for Germany and a re-examination of the evidence.
Slow Writing
- 1. Slow Writing Learning to Write with meaning
- 3. Why use Slow Writing? • Many students tend to rush their writing. • Given a time limit many will race into the task, write as much as they can, hoping it will answer the question, and then wait for the time to end. • Answers like this are often poorly constructed, crammed with unnecessary information or waffle designed to fill the page. • It’s a scatter gun approach where hopefully there will be enough detail somewhere that will answer the question. • Key indicators of this are asterisks *and arrows directing the marker to extra pieces of information. • Students would benefit from learning to stop, to plan and to engage with the question, crafting an answer that will answer the question and engage the reader/marker. • Slow Writing is a method of making students write quality answers.
- 4. How does it work? • A word/phrase/task list of prompts is generated dependent upon the task. • Create lists of 10-12 and Print the list and cut into strips • Distribute to groups so that they all receive different prompts. • Students are given a writing topic. • The prompts are distributed at random to the class with 1 -2 or more strips to each student. • Students are instructed to complete the writing task but must include the prompts in their writing. • Set a reasonable amount of time for the task – it will be much longer than a normal writing
- 5. Word, Phrase or Task lists ..there are a number.. ….in addition… ..there are several… ..this caused… ..for example.. …of causes… Use a sentence with no more than3 words One sentence must include a quote ...as is shown by …due to… ..as a result of… …furthermore… ..to begin with… …nonetheless… …secondly… …demonstrates… …consequently.. …determined.. You will use a colour in a sentence Start a sentence with a word starting with E Words Tasks Phrases
- 6. Who do Historians view as being responsible for starting WWI? Some historians like Bracher and AJP Taylor, believe that Germany was responsible for starting WWI because of Germanys policy of ‘Welt Politik’ and on information contained in Diplomatic papers, including the ‘Blank Cheque’ that were later released. At the time German historians refuted these claims despite German acceptance of the ‘Guilt’ clause in the Treaty of Versailles. Later the hardships inflicted by the Treaty in the 1930’s tended to create sympathy for Germany and saw revisionist historians like Gooch reassess evidence and conclude that guilt should be shared by the major European countries, especially Britain and Russia.
- 7. Version #2: nonetheless, ...as a result of… Historians like Bracher and AJP Taylor, hold the traditional view that Germany was responsible for starting WWI because of the German foreign policy called ‘Welt Politik’ and the ‘Blank Cheque’ that guaranteed German support for Austria in the event of war. Nonetheless German historians refuted these claims despite German acceptance of the ‘Guilt’ clause in the Treaty of Versailles. The hardships inflicted as a result of the Treaty, especially reparations tended to create sympathy for Germany and saw revisionist historians like Gooch reassessment of the evidence and their conclusion that responsibility should be shared by the major European countries, especially Britain and Russia.
- 8. Version #3: include such as, there are several Traditional Historians such as Bracher and AJP Taylor, believe that Germany had sole responsibility for starting WWI initially of because of Wilhelms policy of ‘Welt Politik’ and because of Diplomatic papers. This including the ‘Blank Cheque’ that pointed towards Germanys support and encouragement for a war with Serbia. German historians in the 1920’s refuted this view despite German acceptance of the ‘Guilt’ clause in the Treaty of Versailles. There are several reasons, including guilt created by economic hardship on Germany caused by the Treaty which explain why historians like Gooch reassessed the evidence and decided that guilt should be shared by the major European countries, especially Britain and Russia.
- 9. Version 4: include: Use a colour, start a sentence with ‘because’ • Some historians like Bracher and AJP Taylor, believe that Germany was responsible for starting WWI because of Germanys policy of ‘Welt Politik’ and on information contained in Diplomatic papers, including the ‘Blank Cheque’ that were later released. At the time German historians saw this a black mark against Germany and refuted these claims despite acceptance of the ‘Guilt’ clause in the Treaty of Versailles. Because the hardships inflicted by the Treaty tended to create sympathy for Germany, revisionist historians like Gooch reassessed evidence and concluded that guilt should be shared by the major European countries, especially Britain and Russia.