The Imaginative Response
Navigating the Global is a critical socio-cultural study, and that often makes imaginative writing both an interesting and challenging aspect of the course. Your writing must clearly represent both historical and cultural codes to reflect the critical understanding of the course, which means you have to genuinely engage and THINK!
When constructing your imaginative response, it is essential that:
- You are representing a modern world
- You are inventive, and can construct worlds
- You incorporate the paradigm research from the module and elective. Use events for the time period. Reference the thinkers and other composers, use intertextuality. Research will add authenticity to the setting, events and culture.
- Choose characters that belong within the historical period. They should be sophisticated, cosmopolitan and sympathetic. What is their world view?
- Prepare across a wide range of texts types and think about how what you have learnt in the prescribed texts could be transfered to your imaginative response.
- The voice is authentic
- You prove your skill of a writer and the textual integrity of your piece (through craft, cohesion, structural integrity, unification)
ABOVE ALL: The stimulus MUST be a significant, crucial part of the work. Don't just tack it on top of a preprepared response. Be very clear to the marker.
When constructing your imaginative response, it is essential that:
- You are representing a modern world
- You are inventive, and can construct worlds
- You incorporate the paradigm research from the module and elective. Use events for the time period. Reference the thinkers and other composers, use intertextuality. Research will add authenticity to the setting, events and culture.
- Choose characters that belong within the historical period. They should be sophisticated, cosmopolitan and sympathetic. What is their world view?
- Prepare across a wide range of texts types and think about how what you have learnt in the prescribed texts could be transfered to your imaginative response.
- The voice is authentic
- You prove your skill of a writer and the textual integrity of your piece (through craft, cohesion, structural integrity, unification)
ABOVE ALL: The stimulus MUST be a significant, crucial part of the work. Don't just tack it on top of a preprepared response. Be very clear to the marker.
Openings:
- You need to draw the reader in at the start - Start in the middle of a situation - Write the unexpected - Characterisation - Interesting dialogue - A clue - An image, with a gradual reveal of it's significance Things to consider: - An omniscient narrator or varied perspectives - Cinematic gaze/snapshots - Experiment with different kinds of conflict - Experiment with poetic language and work on vocabulary What are the possibilities? - You might be asked to write a piece in any form - You might have to respond to a visual or written stimulus - You might have the textual form dictated to you - You might be asked to consider setting, characters or authors of your prescribed texts and imaginatively transform ideas you've studied in the course |
The Notes from the Marking Centre (2013) from the BOS website are invaluable as a resource. However, when you read through, you can see patterns as they tend to say the same thing year after year.
Weaker Responses: - Were prepared and showed little connection to the question; a "top and tail" approach. - Demonstrated no flexibility and exam anxiety. Danger Zones: - Losing sight of the elective/module - Not making it clear what you know about your elective - Not demonstrating the time period - Cliches (think about what cliches are associated with this elective, and avoid!) - Over writing |
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