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- Subject: English
- AS: 90378
- Level: 2
- Credits: 3
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2.4 Analyse short written texts
This achievement standard involves previous reading and study of at least two short written texts of the same or different genre (for example poetry, short stories, magazine articles) and writing an analysis that shows understanding of ideas and techniques in the text(s).
Texts analysed at this level should be of sufficient depth and complexity to enable development of a full and detailed analysis. You must discuss more than one text, either text may be from the same or a different genre. For example you can discuss a poem and a short story to answer the same question or two poems or two short stories to answer the same question.
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