Other ideologies optional routes common mistakes

Common mistakes

• Ecologism optional route Politics mistake 1

  Presenting AO1 description as AO3 evaluation. This weakens answers to Relate Rachel Carson's grassroots environmentalism, environmental protection and sustainable resource management to ecologist thinking..

  Fix itAdd a competing viewpoint, test it with political evidence, explain its limit and reach a substantiated judgement. Keep AO1, AO2 and AO3 distinct.

• Ecologism optional route Politics mistake 1

  Presenting AO1 description as AO3 evaluation. This weakens answers to Relate EF Schumacher's appropriate technology, empowerment, sustainable development and technology transfer to ecologist thinking..

  Fix itAdd a competing viewpoint, test it with political evidence, explain its limit and reach a substantiated judgement. Keep AO1, AO2 and AO3 distinct.

• Ecologism optional route Politics mistake 1

  Presenting AO1 description as AO3 evaluation. This weakens answers to Relate Carolyn Merchant's analysis of interactions between people and nature, moral concern and participatory democracy to ecologist thinking..

  Fix itAdd a competing viewpoint, test it with political evidence, explain its limit and reach a substantiated judgement. Keep AO1, AO2 and AO3 distinct.

• Ecologism optional route Politics mistake 1

  Presenting AO1 description as AO3 evaluation. This weakens answers to Relate Murray Bookchin's communalism, anti-capitalism, decentralisation and libertarian municipalism to ecologist thinking..

  Fix itAdd a competing viewpoint, test it with political evidence, explain its limit and reach a substantiated judgement. Keep AO1, AO2 and AO3 distinct.