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Title: Writing on Literature


1
Writing on Literature
  • Analysing and Evaluating

2
Answering the Question
  • You will never be asked to simply write about
    literature
  • A question or task will always shape your response

3
Answering the Question
  • How does Stoker use language to create a sense
    of horror?
  • In your books, list the three words that tell you
    how to answer this question.

4
Answering the Question
  • How does Stoker use language to create a sense
    of horror?

5
Answering the Question
  • Your job is answer this question as fully as
    possible.
  • Aim to think out loud in your writing. In other
    words, show that you are exploring the issues
    raised by the question.

6
Answering the Question
  • Aim to come across as someone who can think for
    themselves and can make judgements about what
    they are reading.
  • Avoid listing the notes you have prepared

7
Evaluating
  • A simple way of organising your answer is to
    decide on priorities.

8
Evaluating
  • In order of seriousness, order these events
    most serious at the top
  • A get away car is stolen
  • A bank worker is shot
  • A bank customer is wounded
  • 2 million pounds in cash is stolen
  • A parked car is damaged

9
Evaluating
  • You have just evaluated a serious of events,
    using your own system of judgements.
  • This could also have been prioritised from other
    points of view the robbers the bank owners the
    police

10
Evaluating
  • When you write on literature, you do exactly the
    same thing
  • Rather than a single persons point of view, the
    question is your guide to what is most important,
    what is least important.

11
Evaluating
  • To go back to our question
  • How does Stoker use language to create a sense
    of horror?
  • It makes sense to order your response by
    discussing the most effective techniques used by
    Stoker first

12
Ordering your Answer
  • Order these techniques in order of effectiveness
    (impact on reader)
  • Use of religious/occult terms
  • Use of violent explanations
  • Use of graphic violence
  • Basic premise husband mutilating wife
  • Dehumanisation of Lucy

13
Writing your Response
  • How you start, and how you progress in the
    paragraph, has been decided
  • But you will need specialised language to keep
    the reader with you

14
Language for Evaluation
  • You need words and phrases that show the decision
    you have made about the techniques used by the
    writer.
  • For instance, since you are beginning with your
    most effective technique
  • By far the most powerful aspect of the passage
    is Stokers use of

15
Language for Evaluation
  • Compile a list of phrases that could be used to
    show how you are evaluating the writers
    techniques.
  • Obvious Firstly, Lastly, Finally
  • Better In a similar way, In contrast to this
  • Find at least five or six of your own

16
Language for Evaluation
  • These phrases and words will allow you to take
    the reader with you as you explore and answer the
    question, from the most, to the least important
    techniques.

17
Language for Evaluation
  • Which words and phrases help evaluate?
  • By far the most powerful aspect of the passage is
    Stokers exploitation of personal relationships
    Arthur pounds the "mercy bearing stake into his
    wife, raising the intensity of an already brutal
    situation. In similarly shocking fashion, the
    writer takes this violence to a graphic extreme,
    the blood welled, then spurted, which makes
    Arthurs actions so much more disturbing. So
    disturbing, in fact, that the reader suspects
    Stokers aim was to outrage as much as shock. To
    a lesser degree, cool, clinical descriptions of
    violence are used in order to disturb, then we
    cut off the head, mostly because their matter of
    factness contrasts with their emotive subject.

18
Language for Evaluation
  • By far the most powerful aspect of the passage is
    Stokers exploitation of personal relationships
    Arthur pounds the "mercy bearing stake into his
    wife, raising the intensity of an already brutal
    situation. In similarly shocking fashion, the
    writer takes this violence to a graphic extreme,
    the blood welled, then spurted, which makes
    Arthurs actions so much more disturbing. So
    disturbing, in fact, that the reader suspects
    Stokers aim was to outrage as much as shock. To
    a lesser degree, cool, clinical descriptions of
    violence are used in order to disturb, then we
    cut off the head, mostly because their matter of
    factness contrasts with their emotive subject.
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