Key Directional Terms

State reasons for, report on. Give an account of: narrate a series of events or transactions

• Account for

• Analyse

• Apply

• Assess

Identify components and the relationship between them; draw out and relate implications

• Describe

• Correlate

• Analyse

• Compare

Use, utilise, employ in a particular situation

• Analyse

• Apply

• Discuss

• Comapre

Make a judgement of value, quality, outcomes, results or size

• Assess

• Account for

• Analyse

• Apply

Show how things are similar and different

• Correlate

• Compare

• Evaluate

• Explain

Demonstrate a mutual or complementary relationship

• Compare

• Correlate

• Evaluate

• Identify

Provide characteristics and features

• Compare

• Evaluate

• Explain

• Describe

Identify issues and provide points for and/or against

• Evaluate

• Discuss

• Identify

• Compare

To ascertain the value or amount of; appraise carefully

• Discuss

• Assess

• Analyse

• Evaluate

Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how

• Assess

• Analyse

• Correlate

• Explain