Q. Each journal article read in this course presents a different perspective than that in Judge and Langdon's textbook. Which article differs most from the textbook's account of the same time and place? In making your decision, be sure to consider both “content” and “style,” consulting Writing History for help with the latter. It is inevitable that an incident will have multiple perspectives. When a historian writes an article, he or she consults numerous sources and footnotes to those sources to analyze and understand the event. Then they present their work in one form or another, which means a whole new point of view is shown. All journals read in this course are always distinct from the textbook because the two sources were written from different perspectives. In this essay, the article that will be discussed is "Mali", in The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A 14th Century Muslim Traveler and the article will be compared to the textbook World History: HIS101 Introduction to Historical Studies. This essay will specifically compare how the historical context of Mali, which is part of West Africa, is conveyed to the public. My point is that the different ways and styles a writer communicates their content and the amount of content they provide to a reader lead to a different perspective of the same incident. In writing, communication between reader and writer is fundamental because it helps preserve information and creates clarity. The manual is communicated in a third person, which allows the author to be more objective rather than emotional or personal. Additionally, the author has no bias in his writing. Since then, it is precise in the information it gives and has a simple workflow. Whereas, Ibn Bat...... middle of paper ......t only tell stories. Both use subtitles, but the textbooks use it to discuss a new topic, whereas Ibn Battuta used to move on to the next chapter or incident he was facing. In conclusion, the title of the textbook gives a flow as it acts as a timeline of the story due to the different style of the work presented, it creates a different atmosphere and the reader then interprets the writer's information from a different perspective. Thus, the quantity of content, the quality of content and the presentation of content lead to distinguishing points of view. This essay has shown that Mali can be described differently by the two sources. Due to the differences: the purpose of writing, the narrative mode, the quantity of content and the means of communication, led to the creation of two different perspectives of Mali. Therefore, an event or incident has multiple perspectives because it depends on how the author and reader interpret it..