Keywords of contextual questions
When we are asking contextual questions certain keywords keep returning.
In the table below we give the most important ones with a guide for acquiring additional information or answers.
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What? |
Which are the most important key terms or key concepts related to your subject? Search for a definition and examples. |
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Who? |
Collect names of important/relevant persons and additional information about them. |
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When? |
Collect information about the time and time-frame of your subject. |
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Where? |
Which are "the places to be"? For example cities, courts, convents, pubs, churches, universities, etc. |
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How? |
Information about the practical application and use of matters related to yoursubject. |
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Why? |
Go looking for “facts behind the facts”: factors which have influenced the arisal, apparition and eventual disappearance of your subject. |
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Whereby? |
idem |
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Wherewith? |
Which means/techniques/instruments/… were used related to your subject? |
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With whom? |
Go looking for relevant colleagues, contemporaries, competitors, ennemies, friends, lovers, … |
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Origin? |
When does a subject or a key concept appear for the first time? When is it named or described for the first time? |
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Related to? |
Are there influences or even “cross-fertilizations”? For example from literature, poetry, visual arts, philosophy, theology, psychology, architecture… |
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