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SAEnglish Literary Studies

Creating Texts (20%)

4 dot points across 4 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you use literary conventions deliberately so that form and technique carry meaning in your own writing?

Craft an original text that uses literary conventions deliberately and explains those choices to demonstrate control of form and effect.
How to deploy literary conventions - genre, structure, voice, imagery - as deliberate, meaning-bearing choices in your own creating-texts piece, and how to account for them.
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How do you write your own original text so that craft choices show what you have learned from studying literature?

Create an original written, oral or multimodal text that uses literary conventions deliberately to demonstrate command of craft learned from studied texts.
How to write the open original Creating Texts piece - choosing a form, controlling voice and structure, and making craft choices that show the literary understanding behind them.
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How do you transform a studied text into a new piece of writing that demonstrates real critical understanding?

Create a re-creative or transformative text that reshapes a studied text and uses the new form to demonstrate critical understanding of the original.
How to write a re-creative or transformative piece that genuinely engages a studied text - shifting voice, perspective or form so the new text argues a reading of the original.
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How do you write a writer's statement that proves the critical understanding behind your creative choices?

Write a writer's statement that explains the deliberate choices behind a transformative text and demonstrates critical understanding of the original.
How to write the writer's statement that accompanies a transformative text - explaining your choices, linking them to the original, and proving the critical understanding the marks reward.
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