Command Terms

Provide a critical review or commentary, especially when dealing with works of art or literature

• Evaluate

• Examine

• Critique

• Interpret

Get valid reasons or evidence to support an answer of conclusion

• Organize

• Justify

• Synthesize

• Outline

Offer a considered and balanced review that includes a range of arguments, factors or hypotheses. Opinions or conclusions should be presented clearly and supported by appropriate evidence.

• Create

• Comment

• Organize

• Discuss

Undertake a systematic process of discovery

• Examine

• Discuss

• Explore

• Create

Evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work or an invention

• Create

• Critique

• Discuss

• Comment

Give a judgment based on a given statement or result of a calculation

• Comment

• Analyse

• Select

• Identify

Use knowledge and understanding to recognize trends and draw conclusions from given information

• Compare and contrast

• Use

• Summarize

• Interpret

Abstract a general theme or major point(s)

• Summarize

• Identify

• Synthesize

• Use

Appy knowledge or rules to put theory into practice

• Comment

• Explore

• Justify

• Use