A guide to the coursework task

In brief You will choose three extracts to write about. Two must be poems (by the same poet) and one must be a short extract from a novel or a play. E.g. you could choose two poems by Philip Larkin and one page from Anne Tyler’s ‘Accidental Tourist’.

Compare the ways in which X is presented in … Example titles Compare the ways in which betrayal is presented by Plath and Tyler Compare the way fatherhood is presented by Larkin and Tyler. Compare the way in which memory is presented by Frost and Atwood

Choose one writer from list A and one from list B  List B (a novel or play)  The Accidental Tourist: Anne Tyler  The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood  Hamlet: William Shakespeare

 Your ability to write fluently  Your ability to explain how particular effects are created  Your ability to compare the texts using the frameworks  Your ability to offer interpretations  Your ability to use terminology  Your ability to provide an overview of the texts  Your ability to discuss theme, form, structure, mode and language

First steps 1. Start reading The Accidental Tourist and decide upon an extract to use (Janice has ed you the first 50 pages) 2. Select two poems to annotate (by the same poet) 3. Decide upon three possible coursework titles