AQA English A level NEA help! “Making connections”

So we are starting our NEA, in which we have to compare a literary and non-literary text about WW1. We have already been given a few texts to choose from, but I am honestly struggling. I really want to do the representations of women in the war, and I have looked at the possibility of using “testament of youth” for my literary text. I don’t have any ideas for my non-literary text yet!!!???

So we are starting our NEA, in which we have to compare a literary and non-literary text about WW1. We have already been given a few texts to choose from, but I am honestly struggling. I really want to do the representations of women in the war, and I have looked at the possibility of using “testament of youth” for my literary text. I don’t have any ideas for my non-literary text yet!!!???

How are you defining 'non-literary'? What texts have been suggested for you to look at? Let me know the answers, and I can probably suggest a few texts to get you going. Perhaps a starting-point for you would be to go to the AQA website, and have a look at their 'Resource Package : Non-Exam Assessment' guidance - just to clarify what's required. It's excellent that you've already got a line of thinking (reps of women) with which to start this part of the A Level.

Hi, the non - literary suggestions are things such as:
Transcripts of key political speeches
Propaganda posters or other documents Contemporary News Reports
Modern media coverage
Child-directed language e.g. children’s books, textbooks
Military documents, e.g. battle reports, medal citations, instructional texts
Personal letters Diaries
Transcribed Speech – e.g. interviews or spoken accounts
Any other appropriate non-literary text.

I’m really just struggling to find two texts that I can compare, in which I will have enough to say about the representations of women.

Thank you