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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: I_I on June 02, 2015, 02:45:53 pm
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Hi guys,
I have an exam in a week and I need some external examples for Whose Reality.
Do you guys have any quick, easy real life examples I can have up my sleeve. I would like to have as many as I can so I have something to write on the day.
I've been writing much like a text response and outside examples would really help!
P.S I was just wondering, could your own experience count as an external example? Could I write two paragraphs based on the text and the other on my own experience or would this be a bad idea?
Thanks!!!!
:) :) :D
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You can't do better than Lauren's ~*Context External Examples Guide*~! Your own experience is allowable, of course (anything is), but I'd tend to avoid it because I feel like examiner's reports haven't really liked it (can't remember actually).
Remember that the point isn't to write paragraphs centring on the text/external examples; the point is instead to use them to illustrate your IDEAS - so the text isn't the basis for your contention or structure, the ideas are. And you can put both external examples and text in one paragraph.
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P.S I was just wondering, could your own experience count as an external example?
Of course! :)
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Also, seeing as the exam is in one week, and therefore you don't have all day to find examples, I really recommend that you find one example on how reality can be a falsely made. I say this because it is one of the most adaptable ideas in a context piece that we create our own realities, and it is a core idea behind Whose Reality?.
One of my favorites is the Loftus and Palmer Study
A brief rundown of it:
It's a psychological experiment where they show a group of people a car collision. They then split the viewers into I think five groups and tell them they will act as an eyewitness in a court case. They are then asked what speed the cars were travelling at. However, the curveball was that each group received a different verb. One group was asked what speed were they going at when they 'collided', another group got 'contacted', and another 'smashed' and a couple other verbs. The average speeds guestimated by the groups was quite different.
You can use this to say that our memories can be manipulated or that there is no one reality.
Don't give this example away to too many people though! ;)
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Thanks, bangali_lok! I have looked at Lauren's post and many of them were great, but I either needed to read the books or watch the movies (which I will do after the exam!! but I'm really short on time lately :P)
Thanks, Callum! I think your example with the car collision will def be in one of my exam essays! I've been using the streetcar named desire to explore how reality can be falsely made but I think I will use this one now!!!! Thaaaanks ;D
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Thanks, bangali_lok! I have looked at Lauren's post and many of them were great, but I either needed to read the books or watch the movies (which I will do after the exam!! but I'm really short on time lately :P)
Look a bit harder - she's got heaps of examples where you don't need to read a book or watch a movie.