melly_b said:
hmm... okay, so you've got to talk about themes now...
right, so im doing gendered language
Deborah Tannen
Twelfth Night
Elizabeth
+ related texts...
Now i have to TALK about the texts in creative writing... or the actual topic "gendered language" and wat ive learnt?
or all of that mixed together?
i also do gendered language - depending ont the question with our module kinda suggest that u talk about tannen - it gives u something to base ur work on - u can talk about her theories and so forth - um say it is a feature article / radio script / book review / speech - along those lines - than tannen woudl be really appropriate -
but if it was a conversation / story or job interview (they had that before in a trial i think) or something like that mabye mentioning tannen woudln't be appropriate - use her theories yes - so you could have a male adn female and have her trying to achieve intamacy and him independence - that would be using tannen without mentioning her - to make it more explicit you could even have the women say something like - "we need to connect" - instant Tannen parallel
so i guess it kinda of depends on teh level of creativity regarding the text type. For something like the first bunch i woudl deffiently mention Tannen - mention the name of hte work and talk abotu it making it very very obvious - but if its a bit more creative mabye not so forward about her - just subtly use her theories
as for using Elizabeth or Twelth Night? Well personally since teh question
usually says use one of these in the essay i usually use the other one in the creative task. depending on which one is better for the essay... but then again it really boils down to what its asking - like you obviously wouldn't have these in a job interview senario but for a feature article you could use elizabeth - because it conencts with a modern audience...
- its probably not a good idea to look at the same points in both answers though - say you use Elizabeth for teh creative/analytical and explore Elizabeths transformation into power thorugh language - dont make that a feature of ur essay, because there is only a small number that do gendered language apparently there is only one marker - so they will be able to see parallels and then they infer that you dont have a wide knowlege of the elective
so yeah just have a good look at what the question is saying - and read b/w the lines - if it is really creative and doesn't lend itself to an overt anaylsis of Tannen and dont mention her specirfically (my eng teacher rang up BOS head eng guy and he said that you dont' necessarily need to mention her to get an E4) but if it is somethign a little less creative (as in feature article, raadio etc) then you can factor the texts in whilst retaining your creativity...