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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: Water on February 12, 2011, 01:07:13 pm
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Hey guys, as the title says, just wanna see other posters. Because, often, when writing any essay, or any form of writing. I tend to have a plan, and I often think more in my plan than what I do in my writing <<<I"m a slow thinker, so my thoughts come out slower and often will be puzzled. Whats your take? My plan often takes between 30mins - 1hr, just to get the exact thoughts of what I WILL BE WRITING ABOUT *emphasize about* and not how I WRITE IT lol.
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I tend to only plan text responses. My LA is more just working off and grouping my annotations. My context is usually not planned.
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I used to dive right in and write without planning, but then teachers started making us hand in our plans and now it's weird to write an essay without one. Even if it's just a few lines.
There was a period where my plan was pretty much a complete essay but messier and missing one or two sentences. So yeah, don't do that.
I've become really scatterbrained so plans work well, even if it's just writing INTRO, PARA1, PARA2, PARA3, CONC with whatever ideas and dotpoints I can think of underneath. And I'll add to my plan while I'm writing if I can think of more ideas. This is also good if you're like me (please don't be like me, it tends to produce odd results + unnecessary stress) and like to write all 3 essays at the same time and not separately. (Intro of LA, Intro of Context, Para1 of LA, Intro of Text Response, add a few lines to my context etc. etc.)
LA is pretty structured so I just had to PEE (persuasive technique, example, effect) all over the article and that's my plan.
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It's the start of the year, so I wouldn't really be worried about the time you take to plan. Though, anything more than 15 minutes is quite a long time, in terms of planning. The more writing you do, the more plans you do, and perhaps, once you have a better understanding of the text/context; you should find that the ideas come more naturally and quicker. In the exam, I wouldn't recommend you to plan more than 5 minutes, but that's still a long way ahead. Yes, I do plan, but my there are very rough 2-3 minutes plans.