This question is being asked for a friend.
first he asked me i havent done any timed pieces at all for english, but he said he knows the things from his text/ context.
He asked me how worried he should be about time?
i said if he knows everything good enough he should be able to handle the time constraints fine.
He wanted other peoples opinion on this what do you guys think ?
Tbh, not having done any time trials whatsoever might put your friend at a slight disadvantage as he potentially won't have found certain trouble-spots that might affect him in the exam. But you shouldn't tell him anything that's going to freak him out and make him think that he should do a whole 3 hour exam tonight or anything dumb like that
Maybe encourage him to do a quick 15 min. reading time exercise just to put his mind at ease?
hey guys,
so i just came across something on vce discussion space that said you shouldn't talk about 2 texts in context? i have been doing this all year and have been getting a+'s so i'm kind of confused, do assessors really care if you use one or two texts ??
thanks
You need to nominate a "main text drawn upon," so whilst it's totally fine if you're using two, you need you need to have one, official 'primary' text
Hi Lauren,
So if I am writing about connotations in section C, can I dedicate one whole body paragraph to connotations?
Thanks again!!
It's best to talk about connotations alongside the rest of your analysis. Maybe try and have one bit of connotative discussion + three techniques in each paragraph, and possibly a bit of the visual if you really need a formula.
Lauren
For language analysis
HOW: language technique
WHY: author's intention
SO: effect on reader
Right?
What's the diff between WHY and SO?
I'd say
WHAT: language technique
HOW: effect on reader
WHY: link to argument // SO: link to purpose <-- these are basically one and the same
"Why" = 'why would the author want to position readers in this way, or portray this idea as ____?'
"So" = 'so... why would the author...' etc.
Just different terminology that different teachers employ sometimes to make our lives difficult