English Language

Order Description Drawing on material from at least two blocks of the E302 module materials, including the audiovisual material, show how a text or practice that you have found yourself can be seen as creative. As you start to think about your EMA, you may find it helpful to revisit the short animation, Language and creativity: a short introduction, to refresh your memory about some of the areas covered in the module. It would be helpful at the planning stage to consider some of the material in terms of the three lenses outlined in E302: textual, contextual and critical, and how these interact and intersect. The EMA asks you to find an example of creativity and to analyse this in the light of your study of E302. Your example should be a creative text or practice that you have encountered outside of the E302 materials, and must not be one that you have already used in your TMAs. The choice of example is up to you: it could be text (a poster, advertisement, poem, conversation, radio show excerpt, piece of graffiti, a short segment of a play or comedy routine) or a literacy practice (such as reading a story, doing some creative writing, performing a poem or designing an advertisement), or any other example that you find interesting, and which you will be able to exploit analytically. You should analyse your text, or practice, using approaches you have encountered in E302, drawing on material from at least two blocks including the audiovisual material. We have left the choice deliberately broad, to allow you to follow up issues which are of particular interest to you. You are not expected to cover everything. You will need to be selective, and aim to strike a sensible balance between breadth and depth in your answer. You should outline why you chose to analyse your example in the way you did, and reflect on both the process of selection and the outcome. Your EMA should show evidence of the understanding of, and application of, the tools that you have chosen. A strong EMA will show awareness of a range of approaches, and an understanding of some of their strengths and limitations, but you should not spend your whole EMA on this at the expense of your analysis. Your EMA must reflect learning from E302 and must answer the assignment brief set. You may of course include reference to the Stylistics book if you wish. There are no specific requirements for the structure of this assignment, which you can organise in any way you judge appropriate. Please ensure, however, that your EMA is clear and legible, and that your points follow in a logical order to create a coherent overarching argument. You will need to show the tutor who marks your EMA the example you have used, so you should reflect on the most appropriate way to do this. An image, for example (including screenshots), can be included in your EMA. If you use an extract of conversation or an excerpt from a broadcast, you should provide a transcript of this in an appendix at the end of your EMA (this will not be included in the word count). If your text is impossible to show in your EMA itself (for example, website pages that include animation), you may still be able to use the material by providing a stable URL (website address). In E302, it is expected that you engage in critical thinking and evaluation of the materials you have studied, so you will also be assessed in part on your ability to think through the strengths and limitations of the approach(es) that you use, and to express this clearly in your writing.