Section C Discussion

[brenden]

How'd you go with the two articles?! VCAA throwing curveballs this year - LA discussion here!

[arandomu]

It was comparative this year? Damn, this year has it hard 

[brenden]

Yeah, it had a letter to the editor as well as the main body of writing. Should have a copy of the exam up here in just a tic!

[Paulrus]

the comparative part wasn't really what threw me, i just felt it was a pretty terrible article overall. I spent way too long on it and ended up with a pretty average piece :/
I'm reasonably happy with the other two sections but yvette yergon can fuck right off lol

[katiesaliba]

the comparative part wasn't really what threw me, i just felt it was a pretty terrible article overall. I spent way too long on it and ended up with a pretty average piece :/
I'm reasonably happy with the other two sections but yvette yergon can fuck right off lol

Same omg spent an hour and 15 minutes on the piece, so my context conclusion is like a sentence and a half because I ran out of time. :')

[literally lauren]

That second visual looks like a goddamn GAT piece -.-

haha, I see Yvette Yergon is this year's "Helen Day"
What did you guys find tricky about the article?

[darrenkelvin]

Only issue was that i felt that i spent too much time harping on that damn astronaut instead of the mindmap thing next to it. Oh god

[literally lauren]

omfg I just read the comment!

"waah, why should we invest in something as cool as outer space when not everything is 100% perfect on earth. WAKE UP EVERYBODY"

Hope ya'll didn't get too opinionated and tear that guy apart like I would have.

...Dr. Peter Laikis... doctor of quackology I'll bet

[AmericanBeauty]

Asides from having no fucking idea what a comparative essay was or how you did it, I managed to write like Yeseragkjehag or whatever the main article guys name was he wrote like 'beautiful blue planet' then the Doctor wrote something about beautiful blue planet and said that they had differing perspectives whereby the doctor said that money should be spent otherwise, influencing the readers to get their priorities in order and to choose what has more meaning to them, disease and environment or space exploration, which he condemned or some shit.

Did anyone else find it realy hard to use tones for the first article? I felt like it was just passionate and inspiring. I wrote about nostalgia and reminiscing but idk if that was a tone it was just an idea.

[Saikyo]

Wait so is the author Yvette Yergon a guy or girl??? 

[doomdestroyer]

omfg I just read the comment!

"waah, why should we invest in something as cool as outer space when not everything is 100% perfect on earth. WAKE UP EVERYBODY"

Hope ya'll didn't get too opinionated and tear that guy apart like I would have.

...Dr. Peter Laikis... doctor of quackology I'll bet

He obviously didn't read the article as he was pretty much saying that we shouldn't abandon Earth and go out exploring for something new when in the article it talks about how we will use space exploration to discover things that we can use to better our lives on Earth as well as the planet itself, she even had a picture of a solar cell in the article and how that came about from space exploration and that gives us an alternative energy source to fossil fuels that helps us with sustainable use of the Earth's resources....I personally though that the letter to the editor was utter bullshit and unnecessary, it should have just been the opinion piece...

[Jono_CP]

Asides from having no fucking idea what a comparative essay was or how you did it, I managed to write like Yeseragkjehag or whatever the main article guys name was he wrote like 'beautiful blue planet' then the Doctor wrote something about beautiful blue planet and said that they had differing perspectives whereby the doctor said that money should be spent otherwise, influencing the readers to get their priorities in order and to choose what has more meaning to them, disease and environment or space exploration, which he condemned or some shit.

Did anyone else find it realy hard to use tones for the first article? I felt like it was just passionate and inspiring. I wrote about nostalgia and reminiscing but idk if that was a tone it was just an idea.

Yeah I said that it transitioned from a didactic manner to a more inspiring voice. Said that the other one was based on ad-hominem and contrasted the two mainly in terms of tone and contention. Had real problems deciphering whether Yvette was a woman or a man, as I was totally unfamiliar with that name. Although I've heard of Yvonne, so I said a woman... Only had about 40 minutes for context, but felt like I connected Leunig's ideas well. Due to nerves, I forgot a quote from the local imam in the Country of Men due to forgetting his name, so I had to change it up by incorporating some history of the novel... Put a lot of work in, hopefully English turns out ok

[AmericanBeauty]

Wait so is the author Yvette Yergon a guy or girl??? 

yeh fuck i had no idea, just started writing he out of force of habit

[brenden]

That second visual looks like a goddamn GAT piece -.-

haha, I see Yvette Yergon is this year's "Helen Day"
What did you guys find tricky about the article?

Exactly what I thought with the image!

I thought there were some weird elements, just as far as there was the underlying narrative of her touring the exhibition with random tour guide quotes, the weird GAT image... I liked the letter to the editor though, I think the more "angry" language might have been accessible to a lot of people that would be freaking out about it.

Guys: the gender of the author will also be irrelevant, just in case there are some people about to be like OMFG WHAT IF THEY FAIL ME

[doomdestroyer]

yeh fuck i had no idea, just started writing he out of force of habit

Didn't even bother with that shit, i just used the last name.