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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English Language => Topic started by: Butler on November 04, 2008, 07:40:40 pm
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Wishing all the '08 Eng. Language students the best of luck for tomorrow. With all the resources we have here, there's no reason why we all can't kill this exam.
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Go Team EL08!
The essay section is the bit I'm slightly worried about. I wish they'd include a topic on Australian English, however this is unlikely as it's the easiest topic (y/n?).
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just fingers crossed its not totally obscure, and requires 3 paragraphs on one specific aspect, that wouldn't be nice.
with only 2 essay topics this year, you could say that theres a higher chance they will be reasonable.
but yeah
who knows lol
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I want one on weasel words and such
pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :tickedoff:
and you know there is apparently going to be only 2 essay topics
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i think the exam writers are 'out of touch'
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Yeah, the essay is going to be where I struggle, but I think I know enough to be able to bullshit my way through. :)
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Good luck everyone!
Worst case scenario is that they have one essay question on pidgins and the other on creoles >.<
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i think everyone would be going crazy then :uglystupid2:
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the speech writing one wasn't to bad, thinking about it now you could have written alot but in 3 hours maybe :laugh:
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Good luck to all!
I'm definitely going to struggle on the essay. I can write great ones when I'm 'in the zone', but NEVER in the time I realistically have to do one :( I'm also hoping for an Australian English one..they did give one of those in recent years, but not for the last 2 years I think. So hopefully it's about time...
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Australian English topics are so hard. I just want the functions of English or something simple. :(
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Functions of English would be lovely too XD
Language change over time..language and culture...most things are okay..but it's really Australian English (past/recent influences) I'm desperately hoping for
actually I've come to realise the only areas I HATE writing about are Standard Language and all that crap about gender/ethnicity/age (involves too much stereotyping for my liking).
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im going to weseal my way through essay i think :-\
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haha yeah same here. I'm doing some last minute revision for it now :( ugh at least we still have 1/2 a day tomorrow...
I haven't memorised enough good quotes. If they don't give me a topic which fits the ones i've memorised then I'm sc-REWED!
what's everyone going to be doing in that half day before the exam?
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I'm gonna be doing the Kirsten Fox book. Awesome book with good questions. And I'm somewhat improving on short answer questions! :D Haven't written an essay for ages though :(
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I've done most of that book's short answers..I'll really be focusing on getting coherence/cohesion straight in my head, and CRAMCRAMCRAMMING for the essay :( Haha don't worry most of us are in the same boat...I wrote my first essay in ages today! I nearly always disappoint myself with the essays I write under exam conditions :( I've written many full-markers (or close to) outside a true exam situation in both mainstream and Eng Lang, only to massively screw up the real one that counts the most. Ugh. I'm hoping for a complete fluke tomorrow! And I'm just hoping for 41/42 scaled, no sky-high expectations because I feel so underprepared.
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>.< I always get confused with coherence and cohesion. All i want for this subject is a 35. Is that too much to ask?!!! :(:(:(:(
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No, never! I'm sure you'd probably exceed your expectations anyway. I doubt it would be as hard to get a 35+, 40+ etc. in a subject like this, as compared to a subject like Methods or Spesh. I think even if you drop no more than 13-15 marks on the exam you'd be in the running for a 40+ provided your SACs were decent.
It has taken me a whole year to half understand coherence and cohesion. I made my tutor give me a crash course on it on Monday, so now I 3/4 understand it...great! >_>
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No, never! I'm sure you'd probably exceed your expectations anyway. I doubt it would be as hard to get a 35+, 40+ etc. in a subject like this, as compared to a subject like Methods or Spesh. I think even if you drop no more than 13-15 marks on the exam you'd be in the running for a 40+ provided your SACs were decent.
It has taken me a whole year to half understand coherence and cohesion. I made my tutor give me a crash course on it on Monday, so now I 3/4 understand it...great! >_>
I didn't have the best teacher, and it wasn't until going to the VATE lectures that I actually realised there was a big difference between coherance and cohesion. :|
I'm hoping for early 40's ss as well, I've averaged 95% for the sacs so hopefully the exam doesn't let me down.
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Does coherence include metaphors, alliteration, puns etc? The solutions to VATE 2007 really confused me. I'd always thought metaphors were under cohesion. =S
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Lol try doing it by Distance Ed - no teacher unless you make an effort to contact her! I hired a tutor who I saw once a week. And I didn't go to the VATE lectures but a nice person stole the notes and copied them for me :) But yeah coherence/cohesion...I'm stuffed if they try to make us write definitions for those..or for that matter, most terms. To ed: those things you mentioned come under cohesion.
I have no idea exactly what I got on the SACs, because it's Distance Ed's policy not to disclose the exact marks - they only give you a range. I know that I probably aced all the Unit 3 SACs, because my work came back with no comments whatsoever, but I know I sort of screwed up my first Unit 4 SAC...I'm hoping that doesn't let me down. I know the exam will though haha. I'd be happy if I could JUST squeeze into the A+ range...and if I succeed I'm probably going to do it by minimising the marks I drop in the first two sections, which leaves room for me to drop about 13 marks on the essay :D
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\rant I knew the VATE solutions were screwed!!!Argh
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For anyone who wants clearing up
COHERENCE
- logical ordering: chronology, adverbials of time, dot points, sub-headings
- inference
- consistency: topic, lexical choice, degree of formality, same point of view
COHESION
- lexical cohesion: repetition, hyponym, hypernym, synonyms/near-synonyms, same semantic field
- reference: anaphoric, cataphoric, deixis
- ellipsis
- substitution
- connecting adverbials and conjunctions
- also: information flow, patterning
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good luck ppl!!!!! i'm also kinda worried about the essay :S
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good luck people =]
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3 hours and 23 minutes to go!
I'm getting anxious...but mainly because this is my first exam (apart from my solo performance).
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Please be an easy essay question!
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just a quick question people, i cant find my glossary that i made, what is front focus!!!!? gah
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just a quick question people, i cant find my glossary that i made, what is front focus!!!!? gah
I dunno if this will help but my notes say front focus is new info then given info =S
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just a quick question people, i cant find my glossary that i made, what is front focus!!!!? gah
When information that would usually be presented at the end of a sentence is presented at the start for emphatic effect/to give it prominence.
It gains audience attention, because it is an odd way of structuring information.
The examples Macmillan gives are:
"Honey, I love!" (end-focus/usual way would be "I love honey")
"To me, honey is nice. To you, it appears bland"
Also, it is a feature of written language moreso than speech...time to plan, etc.
Hope that helped.
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yeah it does...cheers! :D
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Good luck to everyone sitting the lit exam at 3 today =]