More English Language posts

[nickalaz]

This forum needs more posts about English Language in it.

Caramel, you high achiever you.. care to give any wonderful insight as to how I can dominate the exam? Also, did you get a statement of marks? I'd love to know what you got for your essay, and for your sections 1/2. Which topic did you do?

Anybody got a good collection of quotes? I've got my examples down pat, I've  only got a few quotes and I don't wanna trawl through everything to find them.. too much paper.

I love writing essays :smitten: noooootttttt

I'm gunna beat you all at language,
SUFFAAAAAAAAA

lots of love,
nick

[bubble sunglasses]

 
   hey, what school do you go to?
  and what course do you want? you're "gunna beat us" at everything, so no danger of anybody usurping you

[cara.mel]

I didn't get a statement of marks, looking back it is the one subject I wouldn't mind knowing, given I achieved way higher then I thought I would (I thought I'd be lucky to get 40, but that is possibly just due to the discouragement of my school). I did topic 3, in 2007 it was really the only writable topic (first one was utter shit, second one you needed to have very specific knowledge and was way too dangerous for me to consider poking)

I never quoted anything

[nickalaz]

I'd love it if they had topic 2 on this years exam, heaps of good examples for that one. I don't really like it when they refer to the 'spoken and written' modes in an essay topic, leave that shiz for short answer.

what's the best way to tackle the really specific topics? that's my worry for the exam, not fully knowing what paragraphs to use in the essay. Once i know what topics to structure the essay around, im usually fine.

For example:
"How is language used to confuse, mislead or obfuscate in the 2st century? Discuss in relation to public language. Refer to at least two subsystems in your response."\

With that topic.. I can easily do doublespeak, but i'm not sure what else to mention???
Writing more than one paragraph on doublespeak would be a bit silly wouldn't it? and it would feel like you are repeating the same thing over and over.

[bubble sunglasses]

   hedging, and its use in political language, maybe?
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_(linguistics)

 check out the assessment reports for the essay section, they'll tell you a lot

 

[florallover]

euphemism

[florallover]

or else break it down into diff types of public language... i'd love it if that were the topic!