Can you give me more details?

[LEGION]

hi all :confused:

I have homework and need you to help me

I want more details about it , if you can

the question says :

What view of history is being presented below and to what extent do
you think this view is acurrate? Provide your own examples to prove
your opinion, but your main references should be to the given extract.

Extract

...history invloves far more than amassing facts. It involves payin attention
to the argument - to the way writers shape their material and formulate their
ideas. Writhing an autobiography, for example, involves more than simply
recording "the facts." The way a writer selects and arranges these facts
requires them to interpret their own history and the things they feel are
important in shaping their identity. So the same "life" could produce two (or
more!) autobiographies. Historians, too, may approach the same subject
differently, so that there will be several different interpretations of the same
period, event or movement, with each historian seeking to convince the
reader that his or her interpretation is the most reasonable that can be offered.


I'm waiting your replying

[subterranean]

Are we talking subjectivity here? History according to his-story, where facts, numbers, sources, can be modified to serve one's intention and needs.


So the same "life" could produce two (or more!) autobiographies. Historians, too, may approach the same subject
differently, so that there will be several different interpretations of the same
period, event or movement, with each historian seeking to convince the
reader that his or her interpretation is the most reasonable that can be offered.

[LEGION]

thank you subterranean to your replying

some of my classmates said we have to read the extract

and introduce our opinions about it, and give story from our history.

but I don't know if they are right or not , although the question

didn't mention word "story" or write "story".

[subterranean]

Well probably, your story is expected to be the example of the ideas written in the extract. Maybe you should ask your teacher for additional hints on how to write the paper.