Tuesday, 14 April 2015

A2 LL - TRANSFERABLE COURSEWORK SKILLS

Now the coursework is over what can we use from the coursework experience  that can help us with the exam?  What are the transferable skills we used to write the coursework essays that will be helpful for then exam?

  • know what analysis and present structured, analytical paragraphs
  • identify good quotations to analyse
  • use relevant and appropriate language and literary frameworks
  • have a good grasp of key language and literary terms
  • ability to identify the main effects of language and literary terms on a reader / audience
  • identify key themes in a text
  • be familiar with poetry and some poetic genres
  • be confident in evaluating and commenting on poetic voices
  • annotate texts well
  • observe and make comparative and contrasting observations between texts
  • critically evaluate a variety of different texts
  • identify contextual features of a text

Now the coursework is over what will we experience in the exam that we have not been prepared for by the coursework?

  • work under strict timed conditions
    • be able to read and annotate texts quickly, appropriately and relevantly
    • find quotations for evidence to identify audience, purpose[s], genre and attitudes of texts
    • write quickly a relevant plan for your answer
  • write a production text
  • be familiar with a range of non-fiction and broadcast genres