chronological vs stakeholders

[acm9]

I'm quite confused as to how to structurally approach my Language analyses. My teacher doesn't believe in the 'stakeholders approach' where you group paragraphs based on how a stakeholder is being portrayed/positioned. He tells my class to do them chronologically, but to me it gets quite repetitive and tedious. However, all the other teachers really discourage the stakeholder approach.

I'm conflicted because my teacher has been marking exams for 15+ years. What does everyone else usually do?

[Cristiano]

I'm quite confused as to how to structurally approach my Language analyses. My teacher doesn't believe in the 'stakeholders approach' where you group paragraphs based on how a stakeholder is being portrayed/positioned. He tells my class to do them chronologically, but to me it gets quite repetitive and tedious. However, all the other teachers really discourage the stakeholder approach.

I'm conflicted because my teacher has been marking exams for 15+ years. What does everyone else usually do?

My teacher tells us to structure our paragraphs according to the author's arguments. So if they had 4 Main arguments, you would say how they use language to persuade in each of those 4 arguments - in seperate paragraphs; you'd have 4 body paragraphs for example. However, if theres like 7 arguments then you don't really need 7 paragraphs as it would take too long just do whatever you think is enough.

I don't always follow this, there is no 'definite' or 'correct' way of grouping your paragraphs, it's just whatever is easiest for you and whatever allows you to analyse the language in the best way (and in the most depth).

[Alter]

It can be very frustrating when the expectations of teachers and the actual marking present in exams do not align. In your case, I would've recommended just doing whatever style your teacher mentioned for the SACs considering they will be the one marking it. However, you've obviously finished all your SACs so that's pretty pointless.

Honestly, I think you may be better off doing the holistic approach to language analysis rather than a simple chronological approach if the only thing you have left is the exam. The main disadvantage for this is that you teacher won't give you constructive criticism if they don't agree with the approach. I suppose you could still ask for feedback on this forum, but that is less desirable/efficient.

I'd choose an approach now based on the strengths/advantages the way you see it (for example, you may be more practised in one approach) and keep refining that in the lead-up to the exam. If you decide you want to a 'stakeholders' approach I'm sure there are tons of resources/answers in this sub-forum already, but if you're still unsure, I'd be happy to help you with what I know about this method.

[Unblemished]

It could be argued that the stakeholders approach gives off a sophisticated vibe, because you're critically thinking about who it affects or specific ideas you grouped. There's no problem with chronological, but note that some techniques do appear more than once throughout the piece.