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So what? Why? How? What next? What if?


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1. Description
What?
What is this about? What is the context/situation? What is the main point/problem/ topic to be explored?

Where?
Where does it take place?

Who?
Who is this by? Who is involved? Who is affected? Who might be interested?

When?
When does this occur?

Introductory and background Information to contextualise problem/topic

2. Analysis
How?
How does this work? How does it work in theory/ practice/context? How does one factor affect another? How do the parts t into the whole?

Why?
Why this argument/theory/ suggestion/ solution? Why not something else?

Exploration of relationship of parts to whole

3. Evaluation
What if?
What if this were wrong? What are the alternatives? What if there were a problem? What if this or that factor were added/ removed/ altered?

So what?
What does this mean? Why is this signicant? Is this convincing? Why/why not?

What next?
Is it transferable? How and where else can it be applied?

What can be learnt from it? What needs What are the doing now? implications? How does it Is it successful? meet the criteria?

 (): description becoming analysis

What? Where? When? Who?

What is it? Where is it? When? Who used it?

What was its purpose? How would it work? Why this size and shape? Why the handle?

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How?
How is it made? How was it decorated?

What next?

Why?

Why is it there? Why intact?

So what?

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