Weekly Letter-to-the-Editor LA Practise Club!

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*How does it make the reader FEEL or PERCEIVE? (technique -> implication -> reader)
*Stop quoting unnecessarily unless you're going to analyse it!
*Don't labour a point for too long
*Watch sentence length so that it doesn't spiral out of control

Yep, basically a perfect (and more clearly expressed) summary of my feedback
...wish everyone receiving feedback did that... hint hint guys

[Apink!]

hey bangali_lok
can we revive this for class of 2016?

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hey bangali_lok
can we revive this for class of 2016?

Hey... sorry for missing this!  Absolutely we can!

First, I really need feedback!  If anyone who participated/watched is still hanging round, any ideas for making it better (greater accountability? different letters? how often it's posted? turn it into a competition? etc.) will be absolutely unbelievably welcomed.

Second, I'm not sure how much to do this.  Like if I do it every week of the year, people won't really join in at all - maybe if I did it over these holidays and into the start of the term (coz LA is generally the 1st/2nd SAC), then like monthly from then on, then weekly again in the 2 months before the exam?  Opinions?

Input would be AWESOME!!

P.S. Results From 2015's Mad LA Struggle!

Spreadsheet here.   ... though since numbers and English don't meld, the probability that I achieved 1+1=3 is about 1.5 no wait, probability is on a scale from 0 to 1  Looks like Burt Macklin and AspiringDoc are vying for first place... time for you two to check up on my arithmetic and then fight over the below prize via PM.

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[TheAspiringDoc]

Hey... sorry for missing this!  Absolutely we can!

First, I really need feedback!  If anyone who participated/watched is still hanging round, any ideas for making it better (greater accountability? different letters? how often it's posted? turn it into a competition? etc.) will be absolutely unbelievably welcomed.

Second, I'm not sure how much to do this.  Like if I do it every week of the year, people won't really join in at all - maybe if I did it over these holidays and into the start of the term (coz LA is generally the 1st/2nd SAC), then like monthly from then on, then weekly again in the 2 months before the exam?  Opinions?

Input would be AWESOME!!

P.S. Results From 2015's Mad LA Struggle!

Spreadsheet here.   ... though since numbers and English don't meld, the probability that I achieved 1+1=3 is about 1.5 no wait, probability is on a scale from 0 to 1  Looks like Burt Macklin and AspiringDoc are vying for first place... time for you two to check up on my arithmetic and then fight over the below prize via PM.

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Thanks for the initiative Bangali!
Just throwing ideas around, but perhaps you could try something shorter then on the weekly basis, such as uploading just a single sentence, and we all just discuss the persuasive techniques etc. in that?
And then maybe also an LA once a month or something?
Thanks again!! 

[Coffee]

Hey... sorry for missing this!  Absolutely we can!

First, I really need feedback!  If anyone who participated/watched is still hanging round, any ideas for making it better (greater accountability? different letters? how often it's posted? turn it into a competition? etc.) will be absolutely unbelievably welcomed.

Second, I'm not sure how much to do this.  Like if I do it every week of the year, people won't really join in at all - maybe if I did it over these holidays and into the start of the term (coz LA is generally the 1st/2nd SAC), then like monthly from then on, then weekly again in the 2 months before the exam?  Opinions?

Input would be AWESOME!!

P.S. Results From 2015's Mad LA Struggle!

Spreadsheet here.   ... though since numbers and English don't meld, the probability that I achieved 1+1=3 is about 1.5 no wait, probability is on a scale from 0 to 1  Looks like Burt Macklin and AspiringDoc are vying for first place... time for you two to check up on my arithmetic and then fight over the below prize via PM.

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(An Amateurish AKA Awful Attempt At ASCII Art)

Throwing around some ideas here ...

Might be good to include some image analysis as well as a few comparative tasks here and there. For the weekly tasks we could probably keep it to opinion pieces and maybe an image every now and then? Still keeping it short though. In the monthly ones longer pieces would be good including comparatives, image analysis and different formats (speech, webpage/blog, etc).

[michael leahcim]

Throwing around some ideas here ...

Might be good to include some image analysis as well as a few comparative tasks here and there. For the weekly tasks we could probably keep it to opinion pieces and maybe an image every now and then? Still keeping it short though. In the monthly ones longer pieces would be good including comparatives, image analysis and different formats (speech, webpage/blog, etc).

I like that idea. I'll join in, and hopefully contribute if there need be an extra hand, because this might actually help people like me who are hitting strong into struggle town with Language analysis! I'd like to see a response to this from one of the admin or bangali for that matter

[literally lauren]

Don't worry, there are plans in the works.

For further information, consult bangali's new avatar/profile image

Input is still welcome if you guys have any suggestions though, so feel free to post them here or PM bangali me if you don't want to be eaten.

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Given that Lauren has hopped on board, this year's LA club will hopefully be a whopper.  Get excited

Your first task is to suggest an awesome official name for it.  Suggestions, everyone?

[qazser]

Given that Lauren has hopped on board, this year's LA club will hopefully be a whopper.  Get excited

Your first task is to suggest an awesome official name for it.  Suggestions, everyone?

Damm no Bangali-esque articles!

Name:Only 500 Words

[michael leahcim]

Name: The Not-another-Andrew-Bolt-article language corner (TABLC)

Name: Pooh's syntactical acrobatics corner (PSAC)

Name: Language Analysis repair shop  (LARS)

Name: Eat my shorts: The rebellion against Written Language (EMS)

Name: I can't think of any more bad titles: accepting mediocrity the finale (*tears)

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The LARS was my favourite, Michael
And we are totally not doing Andrew Bolt.  Just not.

Qaszer, the way you keep obsessing about my writing length shows you have never read the writing of:
1) Lauren
2) Pi
3) Joseph
(Especially #1.)

I was being serious about asking for title-help though

[qazser]

The LARS was my favourite, Michael
And we are totally not doing Andrew Bolt.  Just not.

Qaszer, the way you keep obsessing about my writing length shows you have never read the writing of:
1) Lauren
2) Pi
3) Joseph
(Especially #1.)

I was being serious about asking for title-help though

Still can't upvote this ahha. Lauren and Pi certainly do go overboard

[literally lauren]

Name: The Not-another-Andrew-Bolt-article language corner (TABLC)

I love this. Especially because I was genuinely planning on giving you guys an Andrew Bolt or similarly infuriatingly misinformed piece to test your skills and patience.

There definitely needs to be a cool acronym, guys. In fact, you can come up with the acronym, and we can retroactively decide what the letters stand for. If not, some default 'AN LA Club' will do.

LARS is really good though, I like them connotations of betterment and collective progress

Also

Damm no Bangali-esque articles!

We're still ironing out details, but the bangali-ness and lauren-ness of the material might shift from week to week. But I promise to torment you with difficultly levels approaching those of the AN prac exams. You're very welcome, everybody.

1) Lauren

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Huddle round, I'm letting you into a secret.  Keep it down to whispers.

We now have an official name and acronym: The BALLARAT Club (have a crack at deciphering the acronym).  Don't ask me why.  Maybe because Lauren is rural, she thinks all the best people and things must be rural too... and such is the powerplay going on round here, I just have to knuckle under.

...I was allowed to let out this much, Lauren... wasn't I?  pls don't fight me, I'm scared

[literally lauren]

We now have an official name and acronym: The BALLARAT Club (have a crack at deciphering the acronym).

Two of the A's stand for 'and.' The first five letters will probably be easy, but I will give brownie points to creative answers. Also if someone posts a guess that is better than our current working title, we shall claim it as our own. The 'T' does not stand for trademark - I will shamelessly plagarise so help me.

Don't ask me why.  Maybe because Lauren is rural, she thinks all the best people and things must be rural too... and such is the powerplay going on round here, I just have to knuckle under.
...I was allowed to let out this much, Lauren... wasn't I?  pls don't fight me, I'm scared

Fight me.
1v1 in Photoshop


that totally wasn't done in about five minutes of Paint. Nope.