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How to get 10/10 for Context Piece
« on: March 04, 2012, 03:50:03 pm »
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Is it possible to receive a 10/10 for purely persuasive piece? My teacher thinks that in order to get full marks, you have to do a hybrid piece. But as long as my persuasive piece is highly persuasive, well-written, incorporates strong ideas and effective external sources, is it possible for me to get a perfect score?

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Re: How to get 10/10 for Context Piece
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2012, 04:20:06 pm »
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anything is possible if you are good at what you do- i.e you're a top persuasive writer.
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« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2012, 07:10:14 pm »
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An interesting migrant story will take it's course! ;)

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Re: How to get 10/10 for Context Piece
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2012, 07:58:23 pm »
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Is it possible to receive a 10/10 for purely persuasive piece? My teacher thinks that in order to get full marks, you have to do a hybrid piece. But as long as my persuasive piece is highly persuasive, well-written, incorporates strong ideas and effective external sources, is it possible for me to get a perfect score?

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Re: How to get 10/10 for Context Piece
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2012, 06:40:35 pm »
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One of the reasons I think your teacher might have said that is because in persuasive you tend to only really focus on one side of the prompt, which means you neglect a lot of potential complexities and ambiguities that you could have discussed had you written an expository essay for example. So if you really feel you are good at persuasive essays, then to be extra safe, as your teacher says, you would probably want to frame your persuasive essay in an imaginative context which would enable you to address the other side of the issue somehow.

But I suppose, yes, theoretically if you went into the one side you are arguing about in excruciating depth, and wrote it really well, then you could get a 10/10. It's just that doing one of the things mentioned above kind of reduces the associated risk I guess.
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Re: How to get 10/10 for Context Piece
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2012, 06:53:19 pm »
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I haven't heard of a 10/10 persuasive piece tbh, most were either straight expository or expository-creative hybrid.

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Re: How to get 10/10 for Context Piece
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2012, 07:06:08 pm »
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like many people said, no matter what you do, as long as you're good enough, you can score that 10
Some styles, such as expository/expositry-creative hybrids may be easier to score 10's in (I'm not going to start that debate)
I personally liked the expository-creative hybrid, as I quite liked being able to simply state and introduce my views through external examples, while still having a creative twist towards my piece.
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Re: How to get 10/10 for Context Piece
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2012, 09:45:42 pm »
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like many people said, no matter what you do, as long as you're good enough, you can score that 10
Some styles, such as expository/expositry-creative hybrids may be easier to score 10's in (I'm not going to start that debate)
I personally liked the expository-creative hybrid, as I quite liked being able to simply state and introduce my views through external examples, while still having a creative twist towards my piece.

Huh, I thought you wrote Psych journals lol, go figure. Maybe I'm thinking of another MHS kid who did Psych.
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