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In this unit you will develop your skills as a writer for different purposes and audiences by producing a coursework folder of your own writing supported by commentaries. Your writing must be informed by wider reading on one of the following prescribed topic areas:

• Entrapment
• Dystopia
• Women's Lives
• Gothic and Supernatural
• Journeys and Pilgrimages.

Within your chosen topic area you should try to read as widely as possible; the exam board stipulates at least one prose fiction text and one text from either drama or poetry. A range of suggestions and extracts for wider reading can be found using the links on the left. All of the texts recommended on this site are of sufficient merit to warrant study at AS but you should make every effort to find texts which reflect your own interests; use local libraries, the internet and your teacher to help you find suitable texts and rewarding tasks.

Your coursework folder must include:
1 One piece written primarily for a reading audience. The suggested word count is 1750.
2 One piece written primarily for a listening audience. The suggested word count is 750.
3 One commentary on the writing process for each piece of work.

The word count for the creative pieces is somewhat flexible; the complete coursework folder of creative writing should total 2000-2500 but you can choose how to split this between the two tasks. By contrast, the commentaries must be no more than 500 words each; this deadline is prescribed by the board and there is zero tolerance on this limit. To ensure that this deadline is enforced, you must add a cumulative word count at the foot of each page and both your teacher and the examiner will stop reading once the word limit is reached.

Your wider reading should act as a stimulus for your writing and you will need to provide sources, references and quotations to show how your writing has been influenced by what you have read. The exam board stipulates that 'wide reading should cover a range of non-fiction genres: while texts chosen for wide reading do not have to be studied in as much depth and detail as the literary texts, they should cross genres, demonstrate different approaches and provide examples of good models to stimulate and inform candidates' own writing'.

Suggested tasks

The following tasks are the suggestions of the exam board. This list is useful but by no means exhaustive; use it as a starting point to choose a task that suits your interests, your wider reading texts and your level of confidence in writing.?

Examples of tasks aimed at a reading audience:

• comparative reviews of a text in two different genres eg novel/film, documentary/film
• short story inspired by one of the texts
• guide to a literary walk eg Gothic London
• entries from weblog by one of protagonists in one of texts studied
• creating a web home page for one of the prose texts studied, highlighting qualities and appeal and making intertextual links.

Examples of writing aimed at a listening audience

• script for 'off-stage' characters in monologue
• audio script for celebratory exhibition
• presentation for student event
• monologue based on life of historical/literary figure
• dramatisation of scene from novel/poem
• peer presentation on particular aspect of a text eg cultural/literary context of a fiction text
• adaptation of part of novel/short story for radio.

 

 

 

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