Quick questions on Textual integrity in HSC English Advanced Module B

A play because the central concern is the public negotiation of identity. A first-person novel because the central concern is the constructedness of self-perception. A sonnet sequence because the central concern is the recurrence of feeling under different pressures.

A spare lexicon because the concern is restraint. A high register because the concern is the dignity of the speaker. A shifting register because the concern is instability.

A blank verse line gives the language a rhythm that prose cannot; a chapter structure gives the language a pacing that an unbroken text could not. The form is what the language operates inside.

Textual integrity is not the same as quality, depth, or power. Those are evaluative terms; integrity is a structural one. A text has integrity when:

To argue integrity in a paragraph, you need to be able to show fit at three levels. Each level has its own evidence.

A working test for whether a feature is part of the text's integrity: could it be removed or changed without changing the text's meaning?

A common misreading of integrity is to confuse it with seamlessness. Texts that have integrity often have visible seams; the seams are part of the integrity.

The rubric uses the phrase "sustained" deliberately. A text with integrity does not yield its full meaning on first reading. The fit between form, language, and ideas becomes more visible the longer the attention.

The Module B body paragraph is the unit where integrity is demonstrated. The shape that works.

Asserting integrity. Saying "the text has textual integrity because it is well written" is not an argument. Show the fit.

Why does this text take this form? A play because the central concern is the public negotiation of identity. A first-person novel because the central concern is the constructedness of self-perception.

How does the sentence-level work carry the central concerns? A spare lexicon because the concern is restraint. A high register because the concern is the dignity of the speaker.

How does the form make the language possible? A blank verse line gives the language a rhythm that prose cannot; a chapter structure gives the language a pacing that an unbroken text could not. The form is what the language operates inside.

Names the feature and claims its integrity ("Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy is constitutive of the play's concern with the gap between what is thought and what is sayable").

Quoted phrases, embedded into your sentences. Two or three short quotations across a paragraph.