NESA Verbs

State reasons for:

• Evaluate

• Account

• Identify

• Discuss

Analyse

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

• Identify issues and provide points for and/or against

• Show by example

• Support an argument or conclusion

Compare

• Provide characteristics and features

• Show how things are similar or different

• Putting together various elements to make a whole

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

Explain

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

• State reasons for an occurence

• State meaning and identify essential qualities

• Provide characteristics and features

Assess

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

• Inquire into

• Support an argument or conclusion

• Express, concisely, the relevant details

Contrast

• Show how things are similar or different

• Show how things are different or in opposition

• Identify issues and provide points for and/or against

• State meaning and identify essential qualities

Critically analyse or evaluate

• Add a degree or level of accuracy depth, knowledge and understanding, logic, questioning, reflection and quality to analyse/evaluate

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

• Provide characteristics and features

• Express, concisely, the relevant details

Identify

• Recognise and name

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

• Inquire into

• Identify issues and provide points for and/or against

Describe

• Provide characteristics and features

• Express, concisely, the relevant details

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

• Putting together various elements to make a whole

Discuss

• Identify issues and provide points for and/or against

• Add a degree or level of accuracy depth, knowledge and understanding, logic, questioning, reflection and quality to analyse/evaluate

• Support an argument or conclusion

• Concisely express the relevant details