Advanced Higher English 2014/15 Thread

Yeah I have, just starting to plan my dissertation.

I did AH English in 2013 (just finished my first year doing English at uni ) so if anyone has any questions I'd be happy to help if I can, or give you suggestions of dissertation texts my friends and I did

Hi, would you mind giving some examples of dissertation texts, please? I'm really stumped on what to choose. Thanks

I just sat the course and studied Persuasion,Pride & Prejudice, Sweetbird Of Youth and A Streetcar Named Desire, along with the textual analysis. So if anyone needs anything, I will also be happy to help out!

How was TA in comparison to higher CR?


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So I'm beginning S6 next Tuesday and I thought we may as well have an AH English discussion thread. Anyone started the course yet?


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Good idea geschictejunge


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Hi I think the important thing when you pick is to choose something you enjoy, and we got given the whole summer just to read different stuff and come up with ideas, so no need to rush!

I did The Waves and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, partly because they were quite unusual choices and I'd never heard of anyone doing Woolf before, so I hoped I would stand out! Other people did Shakespeare (Macbeth and King Lear I think?); Arthur Conan Doyle short stories; one boy did A Clockwork Orange and Dorian Gray; someone did All Quiet on the Western Front and Birdsong; so we had quite a mixture in our class! As long as it's not something you've studied before and your teacher approves of it (and your plan) then you can pick pretty much anything! The SQA have a list of recommended authors and example dissertation questions which might help you too

Also, our teacher (though this varies across schools) told us to avoid 1984/Fahrenheit 451 because they get done soooo frequently the markers get a bit sick of seeing them! That being said, my friend from a different school used them and he got an A, so it is possible!!

Okay, that helps a lot actually. Do you know anything about classic texts being preferred over contemporary ones? I spoke to one of the girls who did AH last year (she actually found me in the library and had to shout at me before I heard her) and she said she had until November for her dissertation but only ended up finishing it in January. But she said that it wasn't too bad once you get down into it, so I'm hoping everything goes awesome and just starts to click.

I'm not sure if you said before or not, but what did you do for the third unit? Like, did you do TA or a folio? I'm guessing both are pretty taxing but I haven't been in class so I know nothing about either one.