So...who DIDN'T write on the 'Comments' for Language Analysis?

[daliu]

It's not a good day when your teacher tells you that you had to detail the comments of the other posters on that blog about tattoos in your language analysis.

[zoeee]

there is a lot of arguement about it, cause they arent exactly day's arguements- not apart of her article and she hasnt written them so did she have control of the persusive techniques in them.. no but then again it could mean the whole blog
i wouldnt worry too much, i think it will be marked reasonably

[playsimme]

Me - I only integrated one comment as ironic contrasted with the image - the little slut who wanted to cross her legs with her tattoo - thus showing immaturity with tattoos as the book says above 30.. or some bs? idk fml

[contributenotes]

the background information page mentions 'points of view' - plural, hence you had to move out of day's blog and reference the comments

[mjwalka]

I saw the comment from 'kiwi' and sort of linked the image and the two together, plus the doctors expert opinion coupled with the use of tattoos as punishment, still not sure. Don't worry about it mate! There isn't not much you can do about it now, and as everyone else has said i'm sure that's not going to make the major difference on marking, more so the quality of what you did analyse.

[CaptainAwesome]

I was going to, but then I ran out of time :S

[abzzzz]

i did,  yayyy. I'll still get a 4 for it though

[jinny1]

You had to do it...

even the C.E.O of VCAA said on a radio interview "and then there was a series of comments at the end as well that students were also asked to include in their analysis."

[lesch]

Yeah that means I'm pretty much screwed then :/. I didn't write about it at all. My  issue is though, that technically you don't have time to talk about everything, and it says only to talk about the included textual and visual communication. I talked about visual, but also about the written, just not including those comments. Hope I did okay. :/

[Panicmode]

You had to do it...

even the C.E.O of VCAA said on a radio interview "and then there was a series of comments at the end as well that students were also asked to include in their analysis."

Yes, but he said nothing about analysising the comments. He just said they were to be included in the analysis. I know of many people who referenced the comments as a persuasive technique as the interactive nature of the blog draws people into the article and invites them to share points of view with the author. As the pie is ambiguous, in some way, all the commenters are agreeing with Day.

[lesch]

One of the teachers at my school is the Assistant Chief Assessor at VCAA, and he said that as a part of the article they were meant to be commented on. I believe that it was meant to be implied that the comments that were there were placed there by Day and then there could be a link for the rest of those comments, but that was made so unclear by the exam it's not funny.

To make you feel comfortable, a lot of people wrote contrasting essays from the comments to Day's article, and I also didn't mention the comments as I don't think that the audience would really take that much of the comments into consideration; they're on that website to read the article, not necessarily the comments and it can't be assumed that they will be read in real life. A lot of my friends tend to agree that out of the 20 odd practice LA's we did, this was by far the hardest, as the only persuasive things were in the nuances of the text, disadvantaging the weaker students. I think this was harder than the 2009 one, and my English teacher gave this to us last because "I want to break your spirit a little, but also prepare you for the hardest exam possible". Guess she got proved wrong though

[Thelimz]

for the comments, i think the only audience impact was to reveal 4 vastly different types of tattoo people, and urge audience members to consider which one of these comments best reflects their stance. 1st comment- are you a bimbo who gets tattoos because they're "sexy"? contrast this with the second, are you never going to get one because of the medical risks (directed at more educated audience), or with the third one, do you see tattoos as negligible things because you're already a HK, or do you fall into the category of cultural tattoos as the last comment shows? That's pretty much all i can gather about the comments intended effect on the audience. Yes, the images pretty much visually reiterate what the comments are trying to evoke in the audience. it was still a shit article as a whole.

[mattshen]

You had to do it...

even the C.E.O of VCAA said on a radio interview "and then there was a series of comments at the end as well that students were also asked to include in their analysis."

Yes, but he said nothing about analysising the comments. He just said they were to be included in the analysis. I know of many people who referenced the comments as a persuasive technique as the interactive nature of the blog draws people into the article and invites them to share points of view with the author. As the pie is ambiguous, in some way, all the commenters are agreeing with Day.

Mmmm. I agree with you in the respect that the comments. The thing is i stupidly crossed it out at the last minute and replaced it with the comments OPPOSED Day T-T. Do you think this is have a great effect on my mark? Thanks.

[jinny1]

since there was no real tonal shift within the blog itself.

i commented on the juxtaposition of the colloquial tone present in one of the comments and the formal resonance of Day's blog

[HarveyD]

Didn't the first comment oppose her?