Personal StudyPersonal Study

Choosing A TextChoosing A Text

Choosing A Text: GenresChoosing A Text: Genres

Prose: Novel or Short Prose: Novel or Short StoryStory

PoetryPoetry DramaDrama Non-FictionNon-Fiction

Where To Find Out MoreWhere To Find Out More

o Recommendation from family, friends or your teacherRecommendation from family, friends or your teachero Surf the net for summaries and reviews of texts: try Surf the net for summaries and reviews of texts: try

www.whichbook.netwww.whichbook.neto Lists in textbooks like “Essay Skills for Higher English” Lists in textbooks like “Essay Skills for Higher English” o Bookshops and Book FairsBookshops and Book Fairso Summaries available in texts like “The Oxford Summaries available in texts like “The Oxford

Companion to Literature” and “The Reader’s Companion to Literature” and “The Reader’s Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel”Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel”

o Your local or school librarianYour local or school librarian

The Personal Study: Next The Personal Study: Next StepsSteps

Your teacher will expect Your teacher will expect you to have chosen you to have chosen something by the something by the summer holidays.summer holidays.

You must read your text You must read your text over the course of the over the course of the summer holidays.summer holidays.

If you realise you have If you realise you have made the wrong choice made the wrong choice during the holidays, find during the holidays, find something else by using something else by using the same process as the same process as before.before.