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Unit 3: Developing interpretations

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 balance your own interpretation, the textual evidence and a different reading into one sustained, defensible argument?

the integration of an initial interpretation, textual evidence and a supplementary reading into a single sustained argument
How to weave your interpretation, close textual evidence and a supplementary reading into one balanced argument that develops rather than juxtaposes them.
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How do you build an initial interpretation of a text grounded in its views, values and the world that produced it?

the ideas, views and values a text endorses, challenges or marginalises, and the context of its production
How to build a defensible first interpretation of a set text by reading its views and values against the context that produced it.
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How does the historical, social and cultural context in which a text was produced shape the interpretation you build of it?

the historical, social and cultural context of a text's production and its bearing on interpretation
How to use the historical, social and cultural context of a text's production to sharpen interpretation without sliding into biography or recited background.
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How does a second, supplementary reading deepen, complicate or challenge the interpretation you first built?

the ways a supplementary reading affirms, challenges or extends an initial interpretation of a text
How to put your initial interpretation into dialogue with a supplementary reading so your final view is deepened rather than simply replaced.
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