The Reflective and Analytical elements:
The portfolio will contain
(a) Cover sheet with name, candidate number, centre/centre number (150019) and teacher's name
(b) Introduction to theme and reasons (personal, academic or other) for choosing the theme.
(c) Two pieces of reflective (creative) writing of 2 of the 3 genres - poetry, short story or other prose form or drama.
These pieces should have literary non-factual content (although your purpose may be to educate through this medium). One of these piece can be taped or videoed but the tape for video must be between 3 to 5 minute long.
(d) With EACH piece, a rationale for the piece of writing which includes inspiration, purpose in writing, intended audience and situation the audience will receive the writing (e.g. in an anthology, newspaper etc)
(e) Conclusion. In the conclusion the student should reflect on his/her process in writing and his/her opinions.
f) Bibliography
Analytical part of the portfolio – 20 out of 60 marks.
Analysis of one your reflective pieces or a published piece of creative writing on the same theme.
The analysis will include: '
* register (formality, tone, word choice etc),
* dialectal variation (standard, non-standards),
* attitudes to language (what does the choice of language convey to the reader about the character, what do other characters think of the choices of lanaguage or what do certain language types symbolise in societies),
* communicative behaviours shown in the story e.g. use of non-verbal communication
Word limits for written portfolio
The word limits are 1200 words for the reflective portfolio and 350 words for the analytical piece. You will be penalised by 2 marks if both the pieces together exceed 1700 words.
While we have no definite guidance on how to proceed with word count, we are assuming that words have to be over 2 letters to be counted.
With regard to taped or videoed submissions, the script must conform to the word limit and should be submitted along with the tape.