Topic 13 - Shared knowledge and absurdist drama (Session A) > Our schematic knowledge of a typical tutorial

Our schematic knowledge of a typical tutorial

On the next page we are going to begin to work on an extract from the beginning of a play by Willy Russell. This play, which was first performed in 1980, is about a mature English literature student and her tutor. She is a new Open University student and the tutor is a lecturer at another university who is teaching on an Open University summer course for the first time. They are just about to meet for the first time, for their first tutorial.

Before we meet them, let’s explore some of our schematic assumptions about them. We have asked some former Language and Style students for their schematic assumptions, and when you compare your answers with ‘ours’ we will actually be summarising what they told us.

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