There is no formal or specific teaching for this class. All students will sit a practice paper and their answers will be discussed in detail in individual tutorials.
Assessment is by a three-hour examination.
The paper contains passages of poetry, prose, and drama. Students are required to choose one of these passages and to write an extended essay about it. The rubric makes clear that they are invited to respond to formal, generic, political, rhetorical, or theoretical issues raised by the text as they wish. The aim of this paper is to enable all students graduating with an Honours degree in English to display their ability to analyse literary texts and to deploy literary arguments in general terms. This class assumes that Honours students in English Studies will be able to write intelligently about any piece of text which is put in front of them.