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How I Studied for VCE English Language (U3&4)

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brightsky:
Welcome back. :)

Eiffel:
What was your approach before every SAC? E.g. how would you research, amount of practice essays etc :D ?

AzureBlue:

--- Quote from: Eiffel on February 11, 2015, 01:27:18 am ---What was your approach before every SAC? E.g. how would you research, amount of practice essays etc :D ?

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Depends on SAC. For short-answer and analytical commentary SACs, I did the relevant bits of Insight Englang Exam Guide as well as the short-answer sections of past practice exams for practice. For essay, you practice past essay topics on the general area the SAC is going to be about, eg. identity. As I stated before, I didn't do a huge amount of practice essays or commentaries, maybe about 10-15 essays and 2-5 commentaries through the whole year? I focused more on short-answer sections as they are easy to self-mark and readily available (there are probably about 30 relevant prac exams out there). Research for examples I did gradually throughout the year and not specifically for any SACs.

Butterflygirl:
Hey,
I was just wondering if I should print out the articles I find and annotate them or just create a table and insert the quotes into it. If it's better to do it in a table, do you think an excel or word document?

And when annotating, do I comment on source, subsystem, register and audience of the text or just pick out the quote and the feature used (as well as the purpose of using it)?

Thankyou >.<

ekay:

--- Quote from: Butterflygirl on January 12, 2016, 09:21:34 am ---Hey,
I was just wondering if I should print out the articles I find and annotate them or just create a table and insert the quotes into it. If it's better to do it in a table, do you think an excel or word document?

And when annotating, do I comment on source, subsystem, register and audience of the text or just pick out the quote and the feature used (as well as the purpose of using it)?

Thankyou >.<

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It doesn't really matter how you do it, neither method is innately better! It's just like writing notes in general; some people prefer handwriting them whilst others prefer typing, and it depends which one you feel works better for you and helps you remember. Having said that, I personally kept a record of my media examples on a Word table, as did many of my friends, because I found it more organised to look at and it was easier to search up examples I'd found earlier, but if you've got a good memory then maybe annotating by hand is better for you!

Definitely keep a record of where and when the example is from for future reference in case you need it (so you don't need to keep the whole article). It wouldn't hurt to comment on register and audience, but you will really only be referring to an article for a specific example and then discussing the significance of it, so it's probably not as important. As you said, just note down the example, what language features it used and why the author did so (maybe a little summary of a segment of the article as well to give a bit of context to help you remember what the example is about) :)

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