INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Advanced Higher English
Criteria for success
Key features for success
DISSERTATION
What are you being asked to do?
Finding a topic
Taking notes
Thinking of topics and titles
Planning
Structuring
Structuring and linkage
Introductions – Case studies
Conclusions
The craft of writing
Creating a bibliography
PORTFOLIO
Approaching portfolio writing
Prose fiction
Reflective
Persuasive
Poetry
Drama
Practicalities of drama
Argumentative
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
What are you being asked to do?
Commenting on poetry
Formal structures and their usefulness
Formal structures: Rhythm and rhyme
Free verse and cohesion
Commenting on prose fiction
Non-fiction prose
Commenting on drama
LITERARY STUDY
What are you being asked to do?
Developing ideas and opinions
Dissecting the question
Constructing the essay
Structuring essays on more than one text
Writing about more than one poem
Writing about more than one novel
Writing about more than one play
Top tips for revision
FINAL EDITING PROCESS
Dissertation and portfolio
Detailed checks