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I've written a discursive before but I still have no idea what exactly it is.
anyone has a good explanation of it? 🤔
I think it's a more factual report than proving a point...so it's a more balanced writing style that incorporates arguments for both sides. The following question:
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“Then, although it was still the end of the story, I put it at the beginning of the novel, as if I needed to tell the end first in order to go on and tell the rest.”

Lydia Davis, The End of the Story: A Novel
Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
© Lydia Davis (Penguin, London)

Use this sentence as a stimulus for the opening of an imaginative, discursive or persuasive piece of writing that begins with the end.

In your response, you must include at least ONE literary device or stylistic feature that you have explored during your study of a prescribed text in Module C. (10 marks)

(b) Explain how at least ONE of your prescribed texts from Module C has influenced your writing style in part (a). In your response, focus on ONE literary device or stylistic feature that you have used in part (a). (10 marks)
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Can be answered by arguing that whilst the stylistic choice to put the end at the beginning sets the expectations of the audience, the non-linear storytelling may confuse the audience.
 

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I think it's a more factual report than proving a point...so it's a more balanced writing style that incorporates arguments for both sides. The following question:
"
“Then, although it was still the end of the story, I put it at the beginning of the novel, as if I needed to tell the end first in order to go on and tell the rest.”

Lydia Davis, The End of the Story: A Novel
Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
© Lydia Davis (Penguin, London)

Use this sentence as a stimulus for the opening of an imaginative, discursive or persuasive piece of writing that begins with the end.

In your response, you must include at least ONE literary device or stylistic feature that you have explored during your study of a prescribed text in Module C. (10 marks)

(b) Explain how at least ONE of your prescribed texts from Module C has influenced your writing style in part (a). In your response, focus on ONE literary device or stylistic feature that you have used in part (a). (10 marks)
"

Can be answered by arguing that whilst the stylistic choice to put the end at the beginning sets the expectations of the audience, the non-linear storytelling may confuse the audience.
if you only address 2 positions/viewpoints in a discursive youre gonna fail. just do an imaginative and pray you don't get english advanced paper 2 2024'd
 

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