A2 Coursework Checklist

Just some areas to think about while you are finishing off your first draft.

• check spellings - particularly of the names of the writer / poets (who is Larking?!) and the poems
• use italics for the collection of poems or the name of the play
• use '....' for the name of the poem
• check overall accuracy with particular focus on apostrophes
• write in the third person.
• check your sentence structure - do they make sense? This takes time!
• make sure you get the genre right - play / poem
• use comparative topic sentence which links to the attitudes to the theme
• give a range of examples to support your main ideas and explore how the language links to meaning
• make sure your example has a context - what is being referred to and what does it mean within the context of the poem?
• integrate your quotations or introduce with a colon (:)
• use as much specific terminology as possible
• make sure you have commented on all four texts equally throughout the whole essay
• comment on a wide range of frameworks - have you made points about structure & discourse, lexis & semantics, grammar and phonology?
• make sure there is an introduction and a conclusion

Please can you make sure your name is put at the top of every page and can you include the word count at the end of your essay. Hand in (whatever you have) on Tuesday at 12.10 (lesson). I will give (lots of) feedback the first week back.


There will be work to do over Christmas - so don't think you have it easy!!




Thanks!