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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: chezza on March 11, 2018, 02:34:36 pm
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I have nooooo idea how I'm supposed to write an intro or just anything at all. Can someone please help me write a good essay so I can actually write more before the SAC in 11 days :'(
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I have nooooo idea how I'm supposed to write an intro or just anything at all. Can someone please help me write a good essay so I can actually write more before the SAC in 11 days :'(
First of all, I'd encourage you to narrow down areas of difficulty. I'm sure that your experience with text response during years 10 and 11 will provide you with some insight, regarding the conventional structure of the essay. If you're able to localise your issues, both myself and other users will find it easier to provide you with constructive feedback.
If you are, however, interested in introduction structure, take a look at this recent thread.
All the best :)
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In my Year 10 English class, we've been taught to begin an analysis with and acronym going by the name FACTS.
F - form (what kind of literature is it? A speech? A narrative? Persuasive article?)
A - author/audience (address who it was made by and who for)
C - contention (what main point it wanted to make <- consistently refer back to this throughout entire analysis)
T - tone (how was it written, how would it sound if it was expressed verbally, how does it treat its audience)
S - style (bit more abstract and vague of a term, but basically is what perspective it prefers to take, whether that be expository, persuasive, descriptive, etc.)
When writing an introduction, you don't necessarily have to address it in that order, but covering those five points is a good way to make a sort of checklist for what you have to establish.
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https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=156976.0
There are many templates on this forum and from other sources that will give you a head start as to how to write a language analysis.
Heres a basic one.
1. Read the Article.
2. Capture key info through highlighting or underlining.
(title, text type, author,source, main contention, tone)
3. Find key arguments.
4. Find persuasive techiques
5.add specific quote
6. State the effect on the imagined audience or reader.
7. Ensure you analyse any visual material. (type, features, effect on reader)