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April 18, 2024, 07:47:59 pm

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How do you do it?

The subsystem approach
4 (17.4%)
The "big ideas" approach
18 (78.3%)
Other
1 (4.3%)

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How do you structure your analytical commentaries?
« on: May 16, 2018, 08:35:46 am »
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There seems to be a bit of a split in the EngLang community as to the best way to structure analytical commentaries.

When I did EngLang, I used the subsystem approach, and that's what I'm most familiar with. But a big part of that was the fact that my year was the very first year that the analytical commentary existed, and basically nobody knew what they were doing lol.

If I had my time again, I'd use the big idea approach - so, looking at things like function, social purpose, register and so on, and dividing the paragraphs that way.

Here's what our EngLang lecturer thinks:


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