Coursework Focus: AO5. Using critical interpretations and ideas.

This whole piece of coursework is all about using the critical anthology to support your views.

So: you need critical quotations.  

Top tips for using critical quotations:

• Use them to support your argument
• SHOW HOW they support your argument - never leave a critical quotation hanging
• Once you've shown how it supports your argument, question and point out the critical viewpoint's limitations or weaknesses, to show you can evaluate the sources you use
• Use tentative language to do all of this: 'possibly', 'perhaps', 'arguably', 'could', 'may', 'might'.

Critical quotations should be used to frame and shape your argument.  They add another dimension and add weight and authority to your own ideas.  

You have lots of critical essays to choose from, as well as the critical anthology.

Do not miss opportunities to demonstrate that your argument has been influenced by your reading and research.  Before redrafting you should spend a considerable amount of time reading around the subject.