ATAR Notes: Forum

VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: ashleya on September 17, 2012, 06:53:58 pm

Title: Creating and Presenting - context!
Post by: ashleya on September 17, 2012, 06:53:58 pm

I am writing an extremely personal letter from a mother to her daughter for my creating and presenting SAC.
except i'm having some difficulty working out the context. where would a personal letter be published?
help? anyone?

Title: Re: Creating and Presenting - context!
Post by: charmanderp on September 17, 2012, 07:23:55 pm

It probably wouldn't be published?

Title: Re: Creating and Presenting - context!
Post by: brenden on September 17, 2012, 07:26:44 pm

Yeah, what you write doesn't have to be published? Where did you get that impression?

Title: Re: Creating and Presenting - context!
Post by: ashleya on September 17, 2012, 08:11:30 pm

we were taught that context was where the piece would be published...?
or maybe published was the wrong word.
i just want to know what the context would be for a personal letter.

Title: Re: Creating and Presenting - context!
Post by: brenden on September 17, 2012, 08:17:42 pm

Quote from: ashleya on September 17, 2012, 08:11:30 pm

we were taught that context was where the piece would be published...?
or maybe published was the wrong word.
i just want to know what the context would be for a personal letter.

I'm confused. What do you mean by context? Why is the letter being written?

Title: Re: Creating and Presenting - context!
Post by: lexitu on September 17, 2012, 09:25:02 pm

Context, with a capital C, is the particular topic you are studying. For example, Identity and Belonging. Your piece is meant to explore, either directly or indirectly, the ideas of your Context. You most definitely do not need to write as though the piece will be published. This said though, even personal letters can be published - in a biography, for example.

Title: Re: Creating and Presenting - context!
Post by: dilks on September 17, 2012, 10:43:47 pm

Quote from: ashleya on September 17, 2012, 06:53:58 pm

I am writing an extremely personal letter from a mother to her daughter for my creating and presenting SAC.
except i'm having some difficulty working out the context. where would a personal letter be published?
help? anyone?

Imaginative piece: Short story in epistolary form.
Context: Anthology of short stories on [Whatever your Creating and Present Context is].