Course topics.

Try this with English & Literature Extension

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Reader-centred theory: meaning as transaction
• Author-centred theory: biographical and intentional readings
• Text-centred theory: close reading and formalist analysis
• World-context-centred theory: ideology, power, and social meaning
• Multi-theoretical synthesis: choosing and defending readings
• Literary features: poetry, prose, and drama in theorised reading
• Transformative writing: generating alternative and resistant readings
• Producing, defending, and challenging readings in academic discourse
• Metalanguage of literary theory: terminology and precision
• Academic essay structure: theorised extended response
• Scholarly inquiry: constructing a theoretically productive focus question
• Selecting theories: justifying multiple theoretical frameworks for inquiry
• Exploration and Evaluation — Independent Inquiry: Applying Theoretical Frameworks to Complex, Resistant, and Ambiguous Literary Texts
• Evaluating theories: comparative assessment of interpretive power
• Research paper craft: conventions of extended scholarly writing
• Intertextuality and intersectionality in literary theory
• Ideology and discourse: reading literature as cultural practice
• Unseen text strategy: annotating and planning a theorised close reading
• ISMG criteria: meeting the highest performance standard in each criterion
• Exemplar analysis: annotating high-band theorised readings for EA