6. Example Question
Use a general question to prepare for discursive texts.
You can use one from school or choose one from below.
Example questions
- Use one of your text’s key concerns to write a discursive text of your own.
- Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer
of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour
of your thoughts.
– Alfred lord Tennyson
Use this warning as a stimulus for a piece of persuasive, discursive or imaginative writing that expresses your perspective about a significant concern or idea that you have engaged with in one of your prescribed texts from module a, b or c.
– If you choose to write a discursive text, the first thing you need to do is consider the meaning of the given quote. Here, Tennyson is telling his readers to be wary of talking too much, as we do not want to reveal too much of our thoughts; we should essentially be mindful of what we say. Now, relate Tennyson’s warning to a significant concern, idea or perspective found in one
of your prescribed texts.