{"id":21824,"date":"2023-06-12T19:27:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-psa-is-not-a-formal-essay-assignment-though-you-may-respond-in-the-form-of-a-short-essay-the-purpose-of-the-psa-is-to-guide-you-through-the-process-of-critically-analyzing-an-historical-document\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T19:27:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:27:13","slug":"the-psa-is-not-a-formal-essay-assignment-though-you-may-respond-in-the-form-of-a-short-essay-the-purpose-of-the-psa-is-to-guide-you-through-the-process-of-critically-analyzing-an-historical-document","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-psa-is-not-a-formal-essay-assignment-though-you-may-respond-in-the-form-of-a-short-essay-the-purpose-of-the-psa-is-to-guide-you-through-the-process-of-critically-analyzing-an-historical-document\/","title":{"rendered":"The PSA is not a formal essay assignment, though you may respond in the form of a short essay. The purpose of the PSA is to guide you through the process of critically analyzing an historical document."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PSA is not a formal essay assignment, though you may respond in the form of a short essay. The purpose of the PSA is to guide you through the process of critically analyzing an historical document. To do so, the PSA is organized around four questions:1. What primary source will you analyze?2. How can you describe this primary source?3. What can you conclude after reading this primary source?4. Do other primary sources support or challenge your conclusion?If you are more comfortable answering the following questions directly rather than in essay form that is perfectly acceptable. Points will not be deducted if you do not compose an answer in traditional essay form.The point-value for answering each question is noted below. Points will be deducted if your PSA fails to address any of the required questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PSA is not a formal essay assignment, though you may respond in the form of a short essay. The purpose of the PSA is to guide you through the process of critically analyzing an historical document. To do so, the PSA is organized around four questions:1. What primary source will you analyze?2. How can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=21824"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=21824"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=21824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}