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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: SunnyB on August 30, 2013, 08:17:24 pm
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Hey AN'ers,
Sorry to Mods if i've made this thread in the wrong place ~
WHats the best context type to write with?
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'Normal' expository, persuasive and imaginative pieces are basically the same as context pieces except, as the name tells you, you need to relate your writing to the given context.
The point of the context piece is to explore the ideas given by the prompt and context, usually there should also be a studied text that you need to relate it to.
I'm not sure about other schools, but in my school, our context pieces are completely different to text response. In text response, you present ideas almost completely about the text that you have read. In context, you need to bring in ideas of your own to explore the context through your writing. I haven't read the book you are doing it on so I can't really help any more than that.
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from what i remember, themes for "Night" were along the lines of family relationships, inhumanity, faith etc, so in a context piece you would generally explore these themes using any ideas of your own to back it up (real-world situations, other literary sources, films), but be sure to remember that a substantial amount of your evidence/ideas should be from the text Night, as it's the main topic of your essay.
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We've been taught to include TEEL in our text response essays.
On the other hand, this is the general layout for an expository bp:
Topic sentence
Implication
Wider example
Implication
Reference to text
Implication
Link
I'm sure there are other structures out there.
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Survival in general. You want to make sure that the essay doesn't run the risk of sounding/reading/looking like a text response.
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The topic sentence introduces your "Big Idea", which would be Survival. Then you explain this "Big Idea" through your wider example and reference to text.