I’ve never really tried to make that analogy when teaching students to analyze for OPCVL when doing a close reading of historical sources, but I wonder if it might be effective.
I struggled sometimes to get my students to think about intended and unintended audiences when analyzing historical text and I wish I could have just showed them the way people quote skeet on this site.
March 15, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I’ve never really tried to make that analogy when teaching students to analyze for OPCVL when doing a close reading of historical sources, but I wonder if it might be effective.
I don’t think a majority of Americans possess the skills to determine a reputable source from a disreputable one.
It’s the same skill that we teach in social studies: you need to look at the source’s OPCVL. The origin (who wrote it), the purpose (why did they write, who was the intended audience).
It’s the same skill that we teach in social studies: you need to look at the source’s OPCVL. The origin (who wrote it), the purpose (why did they write, who was the intended audience).
September 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I don’t think a majority of Americans possess the skills to determine a reputable source from a disreputable one.
It’s the same skill that we teach in social studies: you need to look at the source’s OPCVL. The origin (who wrote it), the purpose (why did they write, who was the intended audience).
It’s the same skill that we teach in social studies: you need to look at the source’s OPCVL. The origin (who wrote it), the purpose (why did they write, who was the intended audience).
Wikipedia is a source, and as such, the more we know about its authors the better we can analyze the information we find there.
You can’t ascertain the OPCVL of a source if you don’t have a clue who wrote it, or why. Answering those questions about a source is fundamental to critical analysis.
You can’t ascertain the OPCVL of a source if you don’t have a clue who wrote it, or why. Answering those questions about a source is fundamental to critical analysis.
August 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Wikipedia is a source, and as such, the more we know about its authors the better we can analyze the information we find there.
You can’t ascertain the OPCVL of a source if you don’t have a clue who wrote it, or why. Answering those questions about a source is fundamental to critical analysis.
You can’t ascertain the OPCVL of a source if you don’t have a clue who wrote it, or why. Answering those questions about a source is fundamental to critical analysis.
If you can actually provide a basic analysis of the OPCVL for this source, I’ll consider taking it, and you, seriously.
September 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If you can actually provide a basic analysis of the OPCVL for this source, I’ll consider taking it, and you, seriously.
their claims on, you have no way at all of researching this claim to verify it, short of buying five books and reading them in their entirety.
Do you not see how this is problematic?
A reader of this article has no way of analyzing the OPCVL of the sources cited in this footnote, much less the
Do you not see how this is problematic?
A reader of this article has no way of analyzing the OPCVL of the sources cited in this footnote, much less the
July 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
their claims on, you have no way at all of researching this claim to verify it, short of buying five books and reading them in their entirety.
Do you not see how this is problematic?
A reader of this article has no way of analyzing the OPCVL of the sources cited in this footnote, much less the
Do you not see how this is problematic?
A reader of this article has no way of analyzing the OPCVL of the sources cited in this footnote, much less the
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