ATAR Notes: Forum
VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: HERculina on October 14, 2012, 02:48:35 pm
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Hi all,
For the context section, if you plan on doing some kind of creative/hybrid piece heavily based on the events that ocurred in the text you're focusing on for this section, will you be at a disadvantage?
What kind of things should you do to make it just as good and in depth as someone whose done an expository essay and explored outside examples and evidence?
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No you wouldn't be at a disadvantage. There's more of a possibility of you being at and advantage as you might naturally focus on the themes of the text/context more and be kept on the straight and narrow rather than be sucked into the deep abyss of rambling.
I can't really help on the second question, I just write. Use adjectives lol.
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I really think you should consider some external examples for an expository, otherwise I feel it will mimic a loose text response.
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Nah I'm not doing an expository. I take too long working out topic sentences.
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Nah I'm not doing an expository. I take too long working out topic sentences.
In the case of a hybrid, everything is very loose, so you should be fine. Most of my "external" links in my pieces had connections to the book - for example I stalked researched the author and his childhood for example, or I researched the life of one of the actors and her psychological problems. Hence, although external, they were easy to squeeze with the textual references :)
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Oh yes, I'm using the real names of the women that the characters in Paradise Road movie were actually based on.
I think I'd need to have some strong topic-like phrases throughout my piece though. To signal to the marker my main arguments for the Prompt so it doesn't sound like I'm just retelling a story.
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I really think you should consider some external examples for an expository, otherwise I feel it will mimic a loose text response.
Just going to add that if you didn't refer to ANY external examples for expository and just talked about the text, you'd go very poorly. (Just in case anyone reading this is doing expository)
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^ I found this in one of the lecture notes I went to:
In the examination students who compose seemingly gratuitous creative pieces or simply label one of their characters ‘Abigail’, ‘Blanche’ or ‘Holden’ have not fully examined or explored the ideas of the text in relation to the prompt. They must ensure that the connection between the piece of writing and the nominated text is discernible and central in the ideas of their pieces.
The most successful responses drew thoughtfully from the text; however, the least successful only used a scene or a feature of character in a superficial way or retold the plot of the text.
(Assessment reports 2010, 2011 –VCAA website)
During the year, you would have been encouraged to explore and discuss other examples of conflict from experiences in your own life, to historical examples. And you are quite free to utilise any of these ideas in your exam piece/ however there are no bonus marks for outside sources/examples. An essay full of examples, no matter how interesting will not do as well as an essay that explores and answers the prompt
. Students who used more than one source to illustrate their ideas often produced pieces with a strong sense of unity and purpose. This cohesiveness was contrasted by pieces where one idea followed the next as students went through their list of examples. The product was more a plan for an essay than a thoughtful, finished piece.
(Assessment report 2010 –VCAA website)
It's the first line of the last bit that worries me. But i think it's talking about expository more too.
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^ I found this in one of the lecture notes I went to:
In the examination students who compose seemingly gratuitous creative pieces or simply label one of their characters ‘Abigail’, ‘Blanche’ or ‘Holden’ have not fully examined or explored the ideas of the text in relation to the prompt. They must ensure that the connection between the piece of writing and the nominated text is discernible and central in the ideas of their pieces.
The most successful responses drew thoughtfully from the text; however, the least successful only used a scene or a feature of character in a superficial way or retold the plot of the text.
(Assessment reports 2010, 2011 –VCAA website)
During the year, you would have been encouraged to explore and discuss other examples of conflict from experiences in your own life, to historical examples. And you are quite free to utilise any of these ideas in your exam piece/ however there are no bonus marks for outside sources/examples. An essay full of examples, no matter how interesting will not do as well as an essay that explores and answers the prompt
. Students who used more than one source to illustrate their ideas often produced pieces with a strong sense of unity and purpose. This cohesiveness was contrasted by pieces where one idea followed the next as students went through their list of examples. The product was more a plan for an essay than a thoughtful, finished piece.
(Assessment report 2010 –VCAA website)
It's the first line of the last bit that worries me. But i think it's talking about expository more too.
You can still do that for a creative. They want something that extends from a text response where themes ONLY from the text are included. If you do a lot of research on the nature of conflict, I'm guessing it would be apparent in your writing.