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Quick questions on Sustaining a comparative line of argument: SQA Advanced Higher English Literary Study
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What is frame the thesis in the introduction?Show answer
The introduction names the texts and writers and states the comparative thesis in a sentence. The thesis is your answer to the whole task in miniature: it tells the marker the relationship you will argue (similarity, difference or development) and, where evaluation is asked, hints at the judgement to come. Everything that follows develops this thesis.
What are order paragraphs so the argument develops?Show answer
Each paragraph should move the argument forward, not restate it. Order your comparative points so the case deepens: from the most obvious shared ground to the subtler difference, or from method to effect to judgement. Ask of each paragraph, "what does this add that the previous one did not?" If the answer is "nothing", merge or cut it.
What is q1?Show answer
What does the thesis in the introduction need to state? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
How can you test whether your paragraphs develop the argument? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
What must an evaluative conclusion do? [1 mark]
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