Coursework Advice
AO1 – Writing your argument
AO2 – Understanding how the writer made the text what it is and mean what it does
AO3 – Contexts of the time and place
AO4 – Comparison
AO5 – Responding to and discussing critics’ views
[Unofficial, unconscious AO6] – Stylistic choices
Have you….? YES / NO Examples & Comments
Consistently commented
on how writers shaped
your chosen texts
Used literary theories (eg
feminist,
psychoanalytical,
Marxist)
Used word-level analysis,
including commenting on
the lexical field a word
fits into (eg legal,
medical, educational)
Commented on structure
Commented on form (eg
novel – epistolary – first-
person narration)
Discussed biographical
details of the author
Discussed the literary
movements they may
have been part of
Discussed the literary
influences on an author
Discussed the genre
Discussed how
contemporary (ie at the
time) readers may have
seen the work
Discussed how modern
readers may see the work
– and perhaps why (eg
Frankenstein and modern
AO1 – Writing your argument
AO2 – Understanding how the writer made the text what it is and mean what it does
AO3 – Contexts of the time and place
AO4 – Comparison
AO5 – Responding to and discussing critics’ views
[Unofficial, unconscious AO6] – Stylistic choices
Have you….? YES / NO Examples & Comments
Consistently commented
on how writers shaped
your chosen texts
Used literary theories (eg
feminist,
psychoanalytical,
Marxist)
Used word-level analysis,
including commenting on
the lexical field a word
fits into (eg legal,
medical, educational)
Commented on structure
Commented on form (eg
novel – epistolary – first-
person narration)
Discussed biographical
details of the author
Discussed the literary
movements they may
have been part of
Discussed the literary
influences on an author
Discussed the genre
Discussed how
contemporary (ie at the
time) readers may have
seen the work
Discussed how modern
readers may see the work
– and perhaps why (eg
Frankenstein and modern
