Module One: Now Check Your Understanding

When you have completed this module you should be confident with the following learning outcomes. Make sure you understand all of them before you begin your assignment. 

• Have you considered why readers may prefer a particular genre?
• Can you identify the typical features of the mystery genre?
• Can you use inference and deduction to explore layers of meaning? (‘reading between the lines’)
• Have you explored how vocabulary and subordinate clauses can be used to create suspense?
• Have you investigated how you can take inspiration from real-life events to create your own mystery story?
• Do you understand how to structure a mystery story?
• Have you explored characterisation in mystery stories?
• Have you explored how writers create effective narrative voices? (such as use of first or third person?)
• Have you used role-play and / or creative writing to explore setting and situation?