Category: Writing
To-morrow, and to-morrow and to-morrow – What’s going on inside Macbeth’s head now?
Question: “How does Shakespeare present Macbeth’s deteriorating state of mind?” In answering this question, refer both to the extract below and the whole play. Analyse the language, structure, semantics and the use of dramatic devices …
Creative Writing Exercise: Now and Then
Write a description of a place, separated into two timeframes. This description should explore the contrasts between these two times by describing them using extensive sensory description and careful selection of detail.
Descriptive Writing Approaches
Listening to the prologue from Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, you will notice striking examples of the use of personification, alliteration and second person viewpoint. These approaches are ones we will be experimenting with in …
Great Expectations: Jaggers’ Servant
Use the attached example as a model for your own analysis of your selected Great Expectations text.
Great Expectations Quotations
These quotations may be of use to you in preparation for next week’s Great Expectations test.
Homework: Plan your analytical essay
Due: Tuesday 6 October Tonight’s homework asks you to devise your individual plan for your analysis of spoken and text language. You should use the attached materials to guide you and have developed a …
Text Communication
The Thesis In pursuit of the Language Analysis badge, we are exploring the proposition that online text communication is closer to speaking than it is to formal writing in its style and form. Step one: …
Analysing your own transcript
Today we annotated the transcripts you wrote of your own spoken conversations. In doing this we recognised that the two competing purposes of language were operating in full force – the need for efficiency, …