Coursework commentary english

You get these gems as you gain rep from other members for making good contributions and giving helpful advice. I'm assuming that you're doing AQA... otherwise I don't know if this will be of any use to you! Basically the aim of the commentaries is to explain not only how you devised your coursework pieces, but why you made the choices that you did.

The easiest way to desribe writing a commentary is to pick out all the literary techniques you have used in your work and explain why you have used them, what their desired effect is. Also you need to mention about you aim ie to entertain and how you managed to identify with your target audience.

[…] Confused about Clearing? Check our our FAQ's here >> Confused about Clearing? Check our our FAQ's here >> Does anyone know where I can find examples of commentaries written for coursework? Basically, my teacher has left us to do it all by next week and hasn't given us any help or layout or anything.

Basically the aim of the commentaries is to explain not only how you devised your coursework pieces, but why you made the choices that you did. For example, if you've written for a teenage audience, what specific language features did you include that reflected this? e.g. informal voice, colloquial lexis, words that mimicked speech etc.