Continue the extract as a piece of imaginative, discursive or persuasive writing that evokes a particular emotional response in the reader. Twice before, a book had turned him inside out and altered who he was, had blasted apart his assumptions about the world and thrust him onto a new ground where everything in the world... Continue Reading →
Continue the extract as a piece of imaginative, discursive or persuasive writing that evokes a particular emotional response in the reader. Twice before, a book had turned him inside out and altered who he was, had blasted apart his assumptions about the world and thrust him onto a new ground where everything in the world... Continue Reading →
Some things are unknowable. A person’s secrets may be revealed by the things they leave behind; but what are they, those supposedly uncovered secrets? Words, ideas…dry and dead as dust. The rest of the letter had crumbled. She dropped the packet, which turned into large flakes of what had once been paper. Something about the... Continue Reading →
Choose a character, persona or speaker from ONE prescribed text that you have studied in Module C. Express the thought processes of this character, persona or speaker by exploring a moment of tension in the text from an alternative pointof view. * Father turfed the council out and went to town on Hal. I suppose... Continue Reading →
Recall the figure of Adèle Ratignolle, the 'mother woman' from Chopin's novella The Awakening Choose a character, persona or speaker from ONE prescribed text that you have studied in Module C. Express the thought processes of this character, persona or speaker by exploring a moment of tension in the text from an alternative point of... Continue Reading →
Recall the figure of Jaggers the lawyer from Dickens' Great Expectations. Jaggers saved Molly, his housekeeper, from the gallows and installed her in his house, where she seemed entirely in thrall to him. Pip, Herbert, and Bentley Drummle (the lout who marries, then widows, Estella) witness Jaggers' strange relationship with Molly at dinner in Jaggers'... Continue Reading →
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Use this warning as a stimulus for a piece of persuasive, discursive or imaginative writing that expresses your perspective about... Continue Reading →
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Use this warning as a stimulus for a piece of persuasive, discursive or imaginative writing that expresses your perspective about... Continue Reading →
A response to Camus' L'Etranger and Daoud's The Meursault Investigation Choose a character, persona or speaker from ONE prescribed text that you have studied in Module C. Express the thought processes of this character, persona or speaker by exploring a moment of tension in the text from an alternative point of view. (It's not Module... Continue Reading →
Some things are unknowable. A person’s secrets may be revealed by the things they leave behind, but what are they, those supposedly uncovered secrets? They are words, ideas… Dry and dead as dust. * At that point she always woke up. A wide patch of wet cold sweat on her chest and the sound, or... Continue Reading →
The Craft of Writing 