DBQ insturctions
Subject:
US History [1]
The Document-Based Question (DBQ) Document based essays are designed to test your ability to use documents to support a historical argument. It corresponds roughly to writing a research paper and duplicates the work of historians, where you?re given the evidence and asked to write a paper ? in one hour. The Document-Based Question consists of a prompt with between five and nine primary source documents. The question is not designed to test your knowledge about world history, so much as your ability to use documentary evidence to make and to support a written argument. Critical to this process are the concepts of bias (reliability) and use of all documents to support a thesis. The graders will grade by the following criteria.