Short story ideas for gcse english coursework?
Is this for your creative writing piece, for your GCSE language? If so it doesn't have to be a vivid story at all. It just has to be very descriptive with you showing your writing techniques. I did mine on a guy in an office walking up a flight of stairs and i just described the environment and his thoughts. Thats it and i got full marks for my Language coursework folder and 90 something for my English Lit. I did my English exams last year with AQA so its bound to be a similar syllabus, and I got two A*s. In your exam you wont be able to think of an elaborate story because you wont have enough time so keep the coursework simple and you can apply the same thing you did in your coursework in your English language exam. I actually wrote the exact same thing in the exam as my coursework with the guy walking up the stairs, but had to adapt the story to suit the environment set in the question lol. Just keep it simple
AS Level English Language (8693) Help?
Hi, I'm doing my AS level English Language (8693) exam on the 27th of oct. If anyone else is doing this exam can you please help me out. I need help with answering the commenting questions in paper1. Any help would be appreciated, also if you could share your answers with me so i can have an idea how to answer the questions, that would be great! thanks a lot :)
Ideas for English Language a-level coursework? Analysing spoken language?
I was just wondering if anyone could give me some ideas on what I could focus my analysis on. I have to analyse the way that people use spoken language to communicate, areas such as slang, fillers, hedging (techniques like that) need to be noticed. It could be something like a chat show interview / series of a TV programme et... Please help :)
What is the best way to start your English Coursework in IGCSE?
Well.. English Courswork is basically your own ideas and thoughts (or research) put together in your own words. Hence,the best way to write is just using your own language WITHOUT plagiarizing anything.The best way to start would be making out a plan. For example, for a narrative writing, think about a topic you know the best about. Then make a rough list of what you are going to include in it, then research about what a narrative should include and gather more facts about your topic.
Gcse english coursework - Descriptive writing - description on a city at day and city at night?
Just write about things that you can see, hear, smell, taste and touch. what do these things remind you of? Describe those things as well, and compare them to the things you're describing. For example: The cobblestones of the city street radiated the heat of the day, just like the floor of a brick oven. Waves of heat could be seen shimmering up from the road. The sun had softened the asphalt of the main road so that was as soft and sticky as taffy, giving off a smell of hot grease. With this smell hovering in the high humidity, the air felt thick and oppressive to both the lungs and the skin.
What lessons has your English major coursework taught you about literary analysis?
This may not be much use to you if you are working on an English degree:A. Just about everything you read out there in the real world has lost the ability to state Who/When/Where/Why/What/How because they are so busy sucking you into reading the ads they have “artfully” placed, something that won’t take long to wear out 21st century readers patience,B. Most of what I know about analysis either applies to the next book I read, which will be for edification or fun, or to the art of writing a good procedure (which I am very good at!), which needs to list a descriptive title, documentation, tools, parts, every smallest detail in construction/actions, and a checklist (which should be required with every step checked off and initialed)C. I am also very good at writing abstracts of articles, news clippings, pamphlets, and books, probably a skill that is more analytical than I give myself credit for,D. But, this is not all about ME, although it may sound like it—it is about some of the qualities you can aim for in the real world, whether you are going to teach, write, crank out ads, or climb the corporate ladder~~~good luck, grasshopper!
If you don't plan on becoming a writer, is IB HL English useful in any way?
As I am currently taking the IB diploma, and am not taking English A HL for group 1, my opinion may be slightly skewed and without sufficient experience to back it. Nevertheless, I do believe that taking English A HL is a subject that you may want to choose if you are good at English and/or have a great interest in the subject.I know that it is stipulated that these HL subjects can determine what you will do in university and therefore later on in life, but that’s only true to some degree. You have three HL choices you must take to complete the IB diploma programme, and you have six subjects (maybe seven) to choose from. The primary differences are the time you have to dedicate to that subject (240 hours of class as opposed to 150) as well as your curriculum. In the case of English HL; you’d have to read an extra text, put more effort into your written coursework (analyzing extra texts) and also complete an extra coursework.But English A in general (SL and HL) is not just about learning how to write or studying an author’s craft for hours upon hours on end. All subjects taken as part of the IB programme contribute towards the IB mission of achieving international-mindedness and promoting understanding within students. This is no exception, one of the main ideas behind the subject is seeing how language is used to convey and develop in society. We study the English language because it affects how we see the world, how we appear to others, and how we behave in social contexts. Furthermore, we study literature as this is where language is at its most prominent as well as where we can learn the most from people’s use of language (after all these texts weren’t chosen without reason). There is also discussion of how English has formed around certain ideas or how the influence of the world’s social context has drastically changed writing.In conclusion, there is more to taking IB English A HL than planning on studying the English language or writing in university. If you want to, and if you are good at it, then the decision is up to you. I’d personally never take it because I satisfy neither of those criteria, but everyone’s different. But from what I’ve learned so far, understanding how language plays such a large role in the formation of ideas, society, amongst other things seems to be very interesting.