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NEA: Language in Action - 20% of your grade
NEA: Language in Action - 20% of your grade
What's assessed
- Language Investigation
- Original Writing
- Methods of language analysis are integrated into the activities
Tasks
Students produce:
- a language investigation (2,000 words excluding data)
- a piece of original writing and commentary (1,500 words total)
Original Writing
Original Writing
Original Writing guidelines from the AQA specification
Genre Advice and Potential Style Models
Genre Advice and Potential Style Models
Travel Writing
Travel Writing
Extract from The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
Tips for travel writing from The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/sep/23/travel-writing-tips-expert-advice
Political Speeches
Political Speeches
Barack Obama's first inauguration speech
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/obama_inauguration/7840646.stm
Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech
https://www.archives.gov/files/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf
David Cameron's first speech as Prime Minister
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/11/david-cameron-speech-full-text
British Political Speech Archive - includes notes on rhetoric http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/index.htm
What rhetoric can do for you – and what you can do for rhetoric - Mark Forsyth
Monologues
Monologues
Advice on writing monologues from The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/may/03/theatre1
Further reading:
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
The Investigation
The Investigation
Ideas and advice for your investigation from the EngLangBlog:
- http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=investigation
- http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/language%20investigation
E-magazine articles on conducting your investigation:
- Investigating language - ten tips - Carol Atherton
- Noticing, Collecting and Analysing Language - Fiona English
- Article on using The Olympics as a source for your investigation
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