Module C: The Craft of Writing quiz

Poem, short story, and analytical essay

Imaginative, discursive, and persuasive

Fiction, non-fiction, and stage drama

Beginning, complication, and resolution

Write something completely new and unrehearsed based only on the stimulus

Memorise one fixed piece word-for-word and reproduce it verbatim regardless

Prepare a flexible piece in advance and adapt it to the stimulus

Wait to see the stimulus, then plan an entirely new piece from scratch

Writing built from very long, complex sentences for a dense, scholarly effect throughout

Writing that argues one fixed position from the outset, using tightly structured rhetoric, persuasive proof and a single clear conclusion

Writing whose explicit subject is discourse, linguistics and the study of language itself

A genre between essay and personal reflection that moves through ideas conversationally without forcing a fixed conclusion

Specific craft choices you made, with reference to a prescribed text and what each choice produced

A plain summary of the plot and events of your creative piece for the marker

Your personal feelings about writing in general and how much you enjoyed the whole creative process this year

An apology for any perceived weaknesses or rushed sections in the finished piece

Imagination

Craft

Talent

Originality

300 to 400 words

1200 to 1500 words

600 to 800 words

As long as you can write

It directly shows the marker your personality and reveals the kind of person you really are

Markers simply prefer warm, personal, confessional writing over more controlled, crafted prose styles, and reward sincerity well above any other quality in the piece

It reliably makes the piece longer, and longer pieces consistently score in the higher bands

Voice is the recognisable pattern of choices a writer makes that no one else would make in the same way, and a piece without voice lands mid-band even when fluent

Recursive opening/closing image where the ending returns to the beginning with the meaning changed

Dividing the short piece into many separately numbered chapters, each with its own formal heading throughout

Opening the creative piece with a list of dot points summarising what will follow

Arranging the sentences of the piece in strict alphabetical order by first word

Quote the prescribed texts at considerable length to prove to the marker that you read them

Name a writer and a specific craft technique you took from their work, then show how it shaped a specific moment in your own piece

List every prescribed writer studied across the whole module in one sentence to demonstrate to the marker the full breadth of your reading

Mention the prescribed texts by their titles only, without naming any technique or writer

Spending far too long carefully reading and annotating the supplied stimulus material

Writing the whole response far too quickly and finishing well before time is called

Over-writing the creative piece and skimping on the reflection (which is also marked)

Pausing to read their finished work aloud quietly to check the rhythm of the prose