Follow these steps to choose your extracts:
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Read both texts and find a common global issue.
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Narrow down to 2-3 different extracts within your texts that relate to the global issue.
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Choose the extract that offers the richest literary and structural techniques, enhancing your analysis and providing deeper insights into the global issue.
Tip: Select the extract that has an important significance to your GI (not just a connection). For instance, choose a scene that demonstrates how the GI is manifested in society or a scene that suggests a solution to the GI.
For literary text extracts:
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Novels/poems/plays: Choose up to 40 consecutive lines, but aim to cover your extract in 2 minutes. Often, selecting 25-30 lines works best.
Tip: Since you must address all chosen lines and demonstrate their relevance to your GI, do not include lines that serve no significant purposes. It is better to leave them out than to discuss them incompletely.
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Graphic novels: Include panels up to one page.
For non-literary text extracts:
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Photographs/artworks: Select one photo/artwork
Tip: Choose a photo that has at least four techniques (stylistic devices) to analyze as students often choose images that have too little details to discuss.
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Cartoons: Select one cartoon
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Music videos/Movies/Short films: Use 3-4 consecutive screenshots with captions, focusing on a 1-2 minute sequence of the film
Tip: Though comparison is not a requirement, choosing a pair of works that have similarities and differences in relation to the GI offer good points of transition and allow you to make a perceptive concluding remark in your presentation.