ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AS LEVEL

RESEARCH PROJECT

Please hand to your teacher by 4.00p.m. on Friday 17th September '08

Objective: 

¥ To create a scrapbook of documents relating to a journey (real or imagined) and annotate them to comment on their PURPOSE/FUNCTION, ORGANISATION, AUTHOR/SOURCE, AUDIENCE, LANGUAGE.

Purpose/Link to : 

¥ The journey scrapbook will be used while studying an Anthology of Travel texts (used in Unit 1 Exam ELLB1, Qu.2) and as practice for Exam question on unseen texts (ELLB1, Qu. 1) (ELLB1 is worth 60% of AS:  tested by a one and a half hour exam. in May Õ09)

Assessment:  

¥ A mark of 20 will be awarded, with a max. of 4 marks for each of the five aspects of the texts in bold above. 

¥ Include as wide a range of relevant documents as you can. 

¥ Use your annotations to comment on the way the textsÕ language, form and content shape their meaning.

Ideas of things to include (aim for between 10 and 20 short texts):

Bus tickets

Maps

Vaccination documents

Passport information

Postcards

Information about the destination

How to annotate:

Note PURPOSE/FUNCTION of the text e.g. a postcard is a greeting/souvenir

Comment on ORGANISATION e.g. what headers are used in a guidebook extract?

Suggest AUTHOR/SOURCE e.g. a passport comes from a government office

Identify the AUDIENCE e.g. what age of traveller is addressed by a specific travel brochure?

Comment on the LANGUAGE of a text:  is it formal and functional?  ?  Is it detached or persuasive?  Descriptive, romantic, seductive, critical (etc.)?