Quick questions on The Component 3 paper (Non-Literary Texts) - Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature

Section A sets unseen spoken and non-literary texts for comparative analysis, foregrounding AO4. The texts may include transcripts of interaction, planned speeches, and written non-literary texts, and each is read as the kind of text it is, a transcript with discourse and pragmatics, a speech as a scripted-spoken hybrid, a written text with the language levels. The answer weaves the texts together around shared ideas, comparing how each makes meaning and positions its audience, framed by mode, audience and purpose (AO3). The comparison and the analysis of spoken and multimodal language are central.

Section B analyses a studied non-literary prose text from the Eduqas list (examples include In Cold Blood and Homage to Catalonia). It is read with the integrated method, and because many set non-literary texts are literary non-fiction (reportage, memoir, literary journalism), they reward the literary methods, narrative technique, voice, structure, alongside the language levels. The loading is AO1, AO2 and AO3, framed by the text's genre, purpose and period.

"The reportage borrows the novel's techniques: it focalises a scene through a participant, builds suspense by withholding, and lets evaluative lexis colour a supposedly factual account, so the 'non-fiction' shapes the reader's response with literary method. Reading it as literary non-fiction, not bare reporting, finds the craft." Literary technique in non-fiction.

How is Component 3 structured, and what is its weighting? [2 marks]

What are the dominant contexts (AO3) on the non-literary paper? [2 marks]

Analyse how the writer of your studied non-literary text presents their subject, considering contexts. [out of 60]