HSC English Advanced Course Module B: Critical Study of Texts

In this course activity, you will participate in a peer discussion about how literary or other artistic pursuits and governmental, religious, political, or social structures affect one another. Afterward, you will summarize the discussion and how it helped shape your thinking about your original ideas.

Thus, I am worthy to aid others with their academic encounters (Walden University (2014c)). Similarly, in the second part of the test, I learned I have an aural learning style. Before week three, I never thought about this area. But it is true that when I listen to music while studying, I focus much better than studying in silence. The music also provides inspiration when I get tired or feel like I cannot finish an assignment (Walden University (2014 d)).Again, In the discussion this week, I learned, story’s, paintings, videos and music are all a kind of effective realism. And incorporating voices, video or descriptive words can alter how I envision a piece of work. Therefore, it is imperative to be eloquent with words. Hence, write so the reader can get the actual importance the author is trying to portray. Too, I learned that the plot of the story can be transformed exaggeratedly when technology is added.

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

Analyzing Stylistic Choices helps you see the linguistic and rhetorical choices writers make to inform or convince readers.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a work of immense depth in character development, most notably the personal, moral and psychological battles

A student engages with the details of text in order to respond critically and personally.

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the most produced plays of all time. Written during the height of Shakespeare’s fame—1600—Hamlet has been read, produced, and researched by more individuals now than during Shakespeare’s own lifetime. It is has very few stage directions, because Shakespeare served as the director, even though no such official position existed at the time. Throughout its over 400 years of production history, Hamlet has seen several changes. Several textual cuts have been made, in addition to the liberties taken through each production. In recent years, Hamlet has seen character changes, plot changes, gender role reversals, alternate endings, time period shifts, and thematic alternations, to

The Transactional Theory is a critical method construing literature in a way the reader can make a distinctive experience with the text. Rosenblatt devised the term and is considered to be a part of the “reader response” tradition in literary reproach. Before her theory, literature was alleged to have a sole meaning that the reader must discover. The Transactional Theory suggests that a reader needs to know who they are, what they may bring to the text, and what expectations they may have for the text. This theory also focuses on the choices a student makes as they read the text, with the choice of which stance they take possibly the most important choice of all. There are two basic stances; the first stance is aesthetic stance, and the efferent stance. The aesthetic stance is deals with the student mainly focusing on the experience lived through while reading the text. The second stance is the efferent stance which deals with what information the student will take from the text being read. In addition a reader can transfer from both efferent and aesthetic stances throughout the reading

- AO1: respond to texts critically and imaginatively, select and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations.

In the zoom session for January 31, 2018, Dr. Kathy begins with presenting the class with the Midterm study guide (located in Module 7) and breaking the students into groups to define key terms. After hearing my classmates define the definitions, there were some vocabulary words that I was not completely aware of. Discourse is known to be a social construct towards many ways of speaking and writing. For example, code-switching is constantly being used in Brownsville because of the culture, Tex-Mex. Also, I did not know that there is four roles of readers. I thought there was only two, the text decoder and the text analyzer, but there is also the text participant and the text user. Thinking about it, now, it makes sense that all these four roles

The first example I gave was based on my comic strip, although I did also learn about other genres based on memes, emoji stories, six-word stories, comic scripts and much more. “Who would've ever thought i'd be doing this in my FYC?”(Pelayo 1) Students expectations, or at least mine is just about English being focused on just writing and writing and writing. No other type of academic learning but that one. I really like the fact that in this quarter I have experienced constructing multimodal composition and remediations. It has helped me as a writer to think thoroughly of what the real image of writing is and can

Metadiscourse has traditionally been defined in general as ‘text about text’. This too broad, and rather imprecise, definition entails a degree of reflexivity with which a text is enabled to refer to or to talk about itself or its parts. The concept of metadiscourse may have borrowed its reflexivity property to language in general, which can also function reflexively comment on the language or verbal system itself. In this reflexive form of language, called ‘metalanguage’, the metalinguistic function of language, which is also central to the metadiscourse model used in this study, is most evident.

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. 7th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

Davies, Anthony. "The film versions of Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare Survey 49(1996):153-162 Web. 22 May 2017.

“I really, really loved the book I just finished!”, said Angela. “It was probably the best book I have ever read!” “Wow,” answered Steve. “Why did you like it so much?” To convince Steve that he should read the book, Angela needs to analyze it for him. In other words, she needs to show him WHY she liked it so much using specific details and examples. In this lesson, you will learn how to create an effective analysis for a poem or other text.