Selecting your extracts
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How long should each extract be?
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About 40 lines — short but rich.
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What makes an extract ‘rich’?
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Dense with authorial choices about your global issue — analysable for minutes.
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Why avoid a plot-heavy extract?
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You'd summarise events instead of analysing choices.
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How many extracts, from where?
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One from the literary work, one from the non-literary body of work.
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Should the extract be your favourite scene?
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Only if it's also dense with choices about your issue.
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What should the extract represent?
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How the whole work treats the global issue.
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Which criterion does a rich extract serve?
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Criterion B — analysis of authorial choices.
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Event-heavy vs choice-heavy?
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Choose choice-heavy — events get summarised, choices get analysed.
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The test for an extract?
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Can you analyse it for minutes, not describe it in seconds?
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Both extracts must explore…
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The same global issue.
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