Dr Philip Holden (email: ellhpj@nus.edu.sg)
[ Introduction and Description | Schedule and Readings | Assessment and Policies | Related Resources ]Examinations for EN2101E aim to give you a chance to how close reading skills, and also to demonstrate your knowledge of theoretical issues and engagement with larger questions in literary studies. The best exam answers will be able to move seamlessly between micro and macro and integrate the two.
The examination will consist of two sections, each weighted at 50% of the overall marks in the examination.
The first section will require you to answer a single essay question, and may involve the analysis of a passage or passages drawn from one of the works you have studied. Because the exam is designed to assess areas of the module not previously covered by other assignments, the passages will be drawn from the poetry and drama sections of the module. You will have a choice of questions.
The second section will require you to answer five out of seven short questions, testing both basic knowledge of theoretical and critical concepts and of elements of the texts themselves. You will have some choice here in that you will not need to answer all the questions. Questions in general will test conceptual knowledge rather than the ability to memorize information: you are more likely to be asked to define an element of terminology how a certain issue is explored in a text than be asked to recall an obscure detail of plot.
Note that this examination will be different in format from some previous examinations in EN2101E, and thus you need to exercise caution in looking at old exam papers.
Last updated: 29 February, 2008