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Title: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: Joseph41 on December 18, 2016, 05:02:48 pm
Hi all,

Just seeing if anybody would be interested in having a weekly/fortnighty/monthly or something thread to practise writing analytical commentaries and/or essays for English Language. If all goes well, it would be similar to the AN Language Analysis Club for English, run by Lauren and Heidi.

Post away if you have any thoughts. :)
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: exit on December 20, 2016, 09:39:12 pm
It would be very useful :)
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: Joseph41 on December 20, 2016, 09:51:48 pm
It would be very useful :)

Awesome!

Thanks for your reply, exit. I'm looking forward to seeing you around this board next year. ;D
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: occidit on December 20, 2016, 11:58:09 pm
Sounds really useful mate, love your work :)
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: Joseph41 on December 21, 2016, 11:31:18 am
Sounds really useful mate, love your work :)

Too easy! I'll start having a think about how it might work. :) Anybody else interested at this early stage?
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: Plasma on December 21, 2016, 04:16:05 pm
I'd be up for it.
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: Joseph41 on December 21, 2016, 04:20:57 pm
I'd be up for it.

Right on! And welcome to ATAR Notes, Plasma! ;D Great to have you here.
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: thammie on December 21, 2016, 05:21:44 pm
It sounds great!!! :)
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: Joseph41 on December 21, 2016, 05:35:57 pm
It sounds great!!! :)

Yay! Okay, cool - it sounds like we'll have sufficient interest, then. :) I'd love to see the EngLang board super active next year!
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: mtDNA on January 01, 2017, 11:07:07 pm
OMG that would be amazing! In fact, I would assume implementing forums for all the sections of the exam would be popular amongst the AN Englang community :)
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: tylenolramyun on January 01, 2017, 11:41:33 pm
I'm down too!
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: Joseph41 on January 02, 2017, 11:42:32 am
OMG that would be amazing! In fact, I would assume implementing forums for all the sections of the exam would be popular amongst the AN Englang community :)
I'm down too!

Right on! If we were to do Section A (the short response), too, how could we make that work? What if I put up a text to discuss and started us off with a few exam-style questions, and then those who answer them also leave a question of their own? This a) expands the question pool significantly, and b) gets you thinking about what types of questions might be asked.

Thoughts? :)
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: mtDNA on January 02, 2017, 12:19:13 pm
Right on! If we were to do Section A (the short response), too, how could we make that work? What if I put up a text to discuss and started us off with a few exam-style questions, and then those who answer them also leave a question of their own? This a) expands the question pool significantly, and b) gets you thinking about what types of questions might be asked.

Thoughts? :)

Perfect  ;D
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: Joseph41 on February 08, 2017, 05:21:18 pm
Alrighty, I'm thinking we'll try an analytical commentary first. What sort of text do people want? A conversation transcript? A written text? Just anything at all? :)
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: exit on February 09, 2017, 06:43:34 pm
Alrighty, I'm thinking we'll try an analytical commentary first. What sort of text do people want? A conversation transcript? A written text? Just anything at all? :)

An informal spoken (conversation) text would be appropriate since informal comes first.
Title: Re: Gauging interest: regular analytical commentary/essay practice?
Post by: cookiedream on February 09, 2017, 07:46:49 pm
I'm in!!