Connecting the two texts
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What connects the two works?
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The global issue — the bridge you cross on every point.
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Weave or stack?
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Weave — move between the works point by point.
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Why avoid ‘five minutes each’?
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It produces two separate talks, not one connected argument.
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What language connects the works?
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‘Similarly’, ‘by contrast’, ‘where the novel…, the campaign…’.
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Which criterion does connecting serve?
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Criterion C — focus and organisation.
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How should you organise the oral?
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By points about the issue, each crossing both works.
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The IO version of ‘two mini-essays’?
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Doing all the literary work, then all the non-literary work.
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What often differs between the works?
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The literary and non-literary work treat the issue differently — say why.
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What should each point cross?
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Both works.
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Connecting the works in one line?
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Issue as bridge; weave the works point by point.
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