Sarah168 said:
Let's just say that we HAVE had a year to get the integration technique down pat
I don't do it cos i can't; i don't do it cos we don't have to, and i don't want to.
Integration for Transformations - by all means. For 4-5 different texts... uh, why would you want to do that? As long as you don't talk about each text in isolation, and give the impression you're writing an essay, not 5 disjointed paragraphs, i don't see the probbie. I think text-by-text lends itself more to elaboration, making you more sophisticated, not less so.
But certainly, if you like to integrate, by all means.