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Component 3: Non-Literary Texts

6 dot points across 6 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you analyse non-literary texts (journalism, persuasion, multimodal) with the language levels, reading how they position their readers?

Analysing non-literary texts: reading non-fiction and multimodal texts through lexis, grammar, pragmatics, discourse and graphology, and the literary techniques of literary non-fiction, to analyse how a text positions its reader by mode, audience and purpose (AO1, AO2, AO3).
How to analyse non-literary texts (journalism, persuasion, multimodal) for Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature Component 3: reading lexis, grammar, pragmatics, discourse and graphology, and the literary techniques of literary non-fiction, to analyse how a text positions its reader by mode, audience and purpose (AO1, AO2, AO3).
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How do you analyse spoken texts (transcripts and speeches) using discourse, pragmatics, prosody and the features of spontaneous speech, reading mode into the meaning?

Analysing spoken language: reading transcripts of interaction through discourse (turn-taking, adjacency pairs) and pragmatics, the features of spontaneous speech, and planned speeches as scripted-spoken hybrids, with mode read into the analysis (AO1, AO2, AO3).
How to analyse spoken texts (transcripts and speeches) for Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature Component 3: reading discourse, pragmatics, prosody and the features of spontaneous speech, and planned speeches as scripted-spoken hybrids, with mode read into the meaning (AO1, AO2, AO3).
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How do you compare unseen non-literary and spoken texts around shared ideas, reading mode, audience and purpose into a genuine AO4 comparison?

Comparing unseen texts: structuring the Component 3 Section A comparison of unseen spoken and non-literary texts around shared ideas with all texts live, comparing how each makes meaning across modes, audiences and purposes, so the connection (AO4) is genuine (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4).
How to compare unseen non-literary and spoken texts for Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature Component 3 Section A: structuring around shared ideas with all texts live, comparing how each makes meaning across modes, audiences and purposes, so the connection (AO4) is genuine rather than separate analyses (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4).
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What are mode, audience and purpose, and how do you read them as the dominant context (AO3) for spoken and non-literary texts?

Mode, audience and purpose: reading mode (spoken, written, multimodal and the blends between), audience (who a text addresses) and purpose (what it seeks to do) as the dominant context for non-literary and spoken texts, framing every analysis of how a text makes meaning (AO2, AO3).
How to read mode, audience and purpose as the dominant context for spoken and non-literary texts in Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature Component 3: reading mode (spoken, written, multimodal), audience and purpose as the frame for every analysis of how a text makes meaning (AO2, AO3).
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How is the Component 3 paper structured, what does each section assess, and what does it reward across the unseen spoken texts and the studied non-literary text?

The Component 3 paper (Non-Literary Texts): comparative analysis of unseen spoken and non-literary texts (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4) and analysis of a studied non-literary prose text (for example In Cold Blood, Homage to Catalonia), worth 20 percent over 2 hours.
How the Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature Component 3 paper (Non-Literary Texts) is structured: comparative analysis of unseen spoken and non-literary texts and analysis of a studied non-literary prose text (for example In Cold Blood), worth 20 percent over 2 hours, and what each section rewards (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4).
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How do you analyse the studied non-literary prose text in Component 3 Section B, reading literary non-fiction with the integrated method?

The studied non-literary text: the Component 3 Section B analysis of a prescribed non-literary prose text (for example In Cold Blood, Homage to Catalonia), read with the integrated method for its language, narrative method and voice as literary non-fiction, framed by genre and purpose (AO1, AO2, AO3).
How to analyse the studied non-literary prose text for Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature Component 3 Section B (for example In Cold Blood, Homage to Catalonia): reading literary non-fiction with the integrated method for its language, narrative method and voice, framed by genre and purpose (AO1, AO2, AO3).
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