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Unit 3: Textual connections
Quick questions on Analytical response genre conventions: IA2 extended response (QCE English Unit 3)
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What is the IA2 analytical genre, briefly?Show answer
Five conventions that define analytical writing for IA2.
What is the thesis?Show answer
An analytical thesis is a claim about how the text constructs meaning, perspective or representation. It is not a paraphrase of theme.
What is sequencing the body to develop the thesis?Show answer
A four-paragraph body works for around 800 to 1000 words.
What is selection of textual evidence?Show answer
Selection at the analytical level is more demanding than selection in IA1. Three rules.
What is holding the analytical voice?Show answer
The IA2 criteria reward a sustained analytical voice. Three indicators.
What is the critical perspective inside the analytical genre?Show answer
The critical perspective is a tool, not the subject of the essay. Three practical guards.
What is the two IA2 traps, named?Show answer
Most IA2 work that lands in Band 4 or 5 falls into one of two traps.
What is common mistakes?Show answer
Persuasive register inside analytical genre. Rhetorical questions, exclamations, second person address all belong elsewhere. Strip them in revision.
What is tightly argued thesis?Show answer
A single claim about the text, arguable inside the critical perspective you have chosen. Not what the text is about; what it constructs and how.
What is quotation as evidence?Show answer
Short quoted phrases woven into your own sentences. Long block quotations are not analytical genre; they signal a writer relying on the text to do the analytical work.
What is devices named and read?Show answer
Aesthetic features and stylistic devices are named precisely and read for what they do.
What is critical perspective applied as a tool?Show answer
The perspective is visible across the piece, not announced and abandoned.
What is sustained analytical voice?Show answer
Calm, dense, declarative. No rhetorical flourishes. No second person address.
What is paragraph 1: largest scale?Show answer
Begin with the structural or formal feature that most clearly underwrites your thesis. A novel's chronology, a play's act structure, a poem's stanza shape. Argue that the largest formal choice already does the thesis's work.
What is paragraph 2: voice and focalisation?Show answer
Move to the level of who tells and through whose consciousness. Quote one or two phrases. Argue that the voice is doing thesis work, not merely existing.