Component 4: Prose Study — Eduqas A-Level English Literature
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- Non-exam assessment: 2500-3500 word assignment (80 marks) 20% of qualification
- This component is internally assessed and externally moderated.
- It requires learners to submit a 2500-3500 word assignment based on the reading of two prose texts by different authors, one published pre-2000 and one published post-2000.
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- Both texts must be nominated and submitted via WJEC's secure website for approval by the end of September in the year prior to submission.
- Texts must be substantial and of sufficient literary merit for A level study.
- For the purposes of this component, the term 'prose text' will be taken to include the novel, a collection of short stories, autobiography and memoir, travel writing and essays.
- The task for this assignment must allow learners to show knowledge and understanding of ways in which texts relate to one another and to literary traditions, movements and genres.
- Learners are also required to consider the significance of different cultural and contextual influences in relation to their chosen texts for study.
- This component is designed to enable learners to pursue wider reading that is of interest to them and to undertake independent and sustained studies of literary texts.
- In selecting a text from post-2000, learners are given the opportunity to engage with, and reflect on, literature published within their own lifetime.
- Learners are required to demonstrate the following skills:
- read texts in a variety of ways and respond critically and creatively
- communicate fluently, accurately and effectively their knowledge, understanding and judgement of texts
- use literary critical concepts and terminology with understanding and discrimination
- explore comparisons and contrasts between texts, establishing links and relationships
- identify and consider how attitudes and values are expressed in texts
- show understanding of the cultural and contextual influences on readers and writers
- draw on their understanding of different interpretations in responding to and evaluating texts
- adopt a clear and appropriate academic style and register
- use accurately quotations from and references to texts and sources