English: Ask Me Anything

[EvangelionZeta]

Hey guys,

Have recently entered uni exams, and remembered English is on in two days. Figured people might still have last minute questions - as such, here is a Q&A thread for the last few days before exams! I will do my best to answer things as promptly as possible.

My credentials:
-Tutored multiple kids to 50 study score in English
-Editor of Connect English guide
-Lectured English for three years
-Three years of uni literature study

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[brenden]

Can you sit my Lit exam for me? Ty

[TrueTears]

anyone who doesn't take up this opportunity is crazy.

[Alan Pho]

Hi Hello!

My context is 'encountering conflict', and I have chosen 'Life of Galileo' as my text.
It is this first year at my school that this text has been chosen so my siblings arent able to help me.

In class we touched on the Julian Assange/Bradley Manning trials as real-world examples of conflict relating to the text.
I've been trying to find more cases of oppression but i cant seem to find any.

What do you suggest? Do you know of any historical examples I can refer to?

Thanks in advance

[OutstandingInDivination]

would small spelling errors and the omission of the occasional 'the' absolutely devastate my mark?

and also, I have a little trouble (not too much, but a little) writing essays on TR questions that focus on a singular character. Somehow, I cant think of enough points to explore. Do you have any tips as to how to structure it? How would you do this question, for instance?

"Hermione's muggle background serve as a driving force for her character. to what extent does her past life govern her progression?"

[tcstudent]

Thank you, Firstly for language analysis, should you try and analyse the whole article in one hour or try and pick out the most important,

for context, should you write 3 body para's or 4, apparently my teacher suggests 4 as their is more discussion but i never have enough time

for text response, should you also write 3 or 4 body paragraphs, im doing twelve angry men and apparently my teacher again says to write 4 body paragraphs, however i did a 3 hour trial exam in the term 3 holidays and only had 15 minutes left to  complete the text response section. but lately ive been timing my LA as it is the problem. however ive gotten it down to 1 hour, so i hope in the exam i can finish text response.

what do you recommend?

[brenden]

(EZ, would you like this thread to be EZ-exclusive, or are we free to contribute $0.02?)

[Green]

I need some phrases that can be used instead of labelling techniques? Do you have any in kind please.

[shooterblitz]

Hey!

I was wondering, in regards to the Text Response (Section A), do Assessors get extremely picky on quotes, in the case you can't remember it and write something completely different yet along the lines if that makes sense?

For e.g. in a practice essay for A Christmas Carol, I wrote: 'the children were jumping around, the fire was lit, and the potatoes were bubbling in the sauce-pan'. The original quote is: "... these young Cratchits danced about the table... he [Master Peter Cratchit] blew the fire, until the slow potatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the sauce-pan lid...'

Thanks!

[Lolly]

1. Lang anal. If I run out of time would omitting the conclusion be ok?
2. Re: authorial comment for Ransom. My teacher is a marker and says it's fine to only mention Malouf's intention two or three times in an essay. Would you agree or disagree?

ily EZ

[nosuperstar]

So for the exam I wish to write an expository essay for my conflict context, although it was previously known to me that an expository essay involves exposing both sides of the prompt and not taking a side, although through reading study guides, online tutorials and lecture notes, it states that I must choose a side and build my arguments for it through my body paragraphs. Wouldn't that simply make it a persuasive piece? Or am I meant to have an opinion throughout but incorporate the other side of the argument much more than you would with a persuasive piece?

Thankyou in advance!

[pi]

(EZ, would you like this thread to be EZ-exclusive, or are we free to contribute $0.02?)

I'll take any donations, I'll PM you my bank deets

[r2ndom]

I am stressing out over context, have not prepared anything tangible and good for half of the major context "areas" of prompts. What should I do in the next 30 or so hours?

[arthurjl]

How important or necessary is it to create a plan before writing your text/context piece? and secondly is it bad to incorporate personal anecdotes to a context expository essay (I'm doing Identity and Belonging)?

@r2ndom I feel the same way you do, context is my weakness and it's stressing me out

[neonperson]

This may be on another thread but I didn't know where to find it -

For my text response essays I find that I'm using a lot of "Through ______, (author) shows that _____".
 Is there any other ways of writing that? I'm being really repetitive and it sounds bad