Name: Ralph Zeus T.

Lorejo Date: 04/9/22

Course and Year: BSME 1B Instructor: Analyn Canete

Assessment and Analysis of Sources

Document Analysis Worksheet: Analyze a Historical Writing

Historical writing is an organized account, often in narrative form, of the past of a nation, of a group of
people, or of one important figure. Historical writing generally has the following characteristics: focus (it
is concerned with real events in the relatively distant past), text organization (the events are told in
chronological order), author’s style and purpose (it is usually an objective retelling of facts rather than a
personal interpretation, However, the author may have a specific purpose in mind, such as teaching a
moral lesson) and features (the author may incorporate literary devices such as anecdotes – brief stories
that focus on an event in a person’s life to illustrate a point).

Use the following characteristics of historical writing and the excerpt from Apolinario Mabini’s “THE
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION” to complete the chart below.

Historical Writing Elements

Focus Subject: The Philippine Revolution

Time: August 23,1896 – June 12, 1898

Place : Philippines

Text Organization Style: Narrative

Author’s Purpose and Style
Features
Purpose: To commemorate the battle for Philippine
independence and to oppose colonization.
The goal of this historical essay is to retell the story of the
Filipino revolutionaries who fought for independence. The
majority of it is based on primary sources. Filipinos from all
walks of life came together to oppose colonialism for a
common cause. It also served to expose Spaniards’
weaknesses and to build intellectual and moral concepts for
the country’s revolutionary effort to overthrow the authoritarian
Spanish government.
Apolinario Mabini uses version of history to focus on one particular event
in a person’s life’s past, as well as image to depict the words and
behaviours of historical writing and in a precise retelling of facts.