Dear L3 Students,

Please find here below the methodology sheet used since the L1 to analyze a text. This hand-out recaps the foundations of the methodology, tools and concepts you should be using when reading and interpreting a text, before you even start working on an actual commentary:

How to analyze a text and prepare a Commentary

Here is also a methodology sheet providing clear guidelines to structure a commentary, once you have thoroughly analyzed the effects and meanings produced by the texts and its various mechanisms:

Methodology Commentary

And, finally, here are guidelines for how to work on literary essays (the French “dissertation”)

HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY

I hope this helps,

As announced last Friday, we will go through the methodology of essay writing together next week.

Please bring your questions to class,

Best

BM