Compare and contrast?

Conclude? Demonstrate?

Explain? Give an example of?

Define? Describe? Identify?

Show? Tell? List?

Apply? Construct? Develop?

Analyze? Classify?

Support your position?

Create? Propose? Suggest?

Synthesize?



Choose? Decide? Defend?
Evaluate? Judge? Select?

Explore? Discuss?

Write a paper on…?

Be sure you select two appropriate sources, justify why you're putting them together, and then analyze their differences.

The professor is essentially asking you to read the sources carefully and extract
information from them, making inferences and restating the information in new ways or taking the ideas to their logical conclusions.

You're being asked to recollect course
material.

You're being asked to take what you learn,
digest it and its implications, and then move
beyond it by using the ideas in new situations.

You are being asked to break down the
information into parts and explore the
relationships between parts and ideas in order to clarify the information, indicate
its organization or form, and explore its effects.

You are being asked to first analyze the information in parts and then arrange and
combine them in a such a way as to produce something new-a new pattern or structure not evident before!

You are being asked to measure and make
judgments about the validity, accuracy, or method of the source based on proven or assumed criteria (which may or may not be provided).

These are flexible terms. Unless the professor gives you a precise instruction
as to the form of the writing, you are being asked to write the analytic humanities paper in which you create a thesis about the assigned topic and argue it.

You are being asked to synthesize and not list secondary sources on the topic, organizing your understanding of the sources with a thesis about them and writing logically organized paragraphs with topic sentences that introduce your points.