English Advanced Question Thread

[jamonwindeyer]

hey i was just watching the essay video and i was wondering how i would structure my paragraphs for a discovrey essay when i'm doing 2 poems adn a related text (i'm doing frost)? I feel like i won't be able to cover the process of discovery in each or that the only way i could do so would be to write about all 3 texts in one paragraph which would make it waaaayyyy too large. Thanks!

There's no set formula for success here - You should do what you think works best for you! Doing each poem and then the related in their own paragraph could work, integrating the response and doing all three texts in every paragraph could also work - Though I'd say the former would be easier. Try both, see which you prefer after having a crack! Chances are your gut instinct will be right

hey i am trying to get quotes/notes together about the theme of conscience in King Richard III and Looking For Richard and I was wondering how it is portrayed in LFR? Thanks!

Have you checked if there is anything on it in the free notes section?

[jamonwindeyer]

Hi guys! In regards to creative writing, I was wondering what are your opinions on stories that span across time? Like little snippets of scenes each taking place on the consequent day. Are they too difficult to write? Thanks!

I personally like these, but they can be a little tricky to write because you need to:

a) Make the jumps obvious for the reader
b) Make them actually mean something

I think definitely worth a go if it suits your creative direction

[jamonwindeyer]

Thank you for your insight!
My problem with this, however, is that it's very hard to do this for all the examples - and that not all examples overlap with a technique provided in the question. In this case, would it be better to cut out/minimise these techniques whilst focus on the ones provided in the question.
On second thought, that would likely decrease the quality of analysis...

Don't take the words given as techniques - They are both just ways of saying the speaker is drawing links between the situation at hand and other situations - Likely to draw empathy from the audience. It's about making the content relatable - That's how I'd interpret the question and you'd analyse as normal

[jamonwindeyer]

Hi!
Just a quick question on how many quotes we should be memorising for Hamlet?
As of now I have 9 really good quotes that probably link to around 4 themes altogether, but I don't have a quote from every soliloquy.
What would you recommend?
Thanks in advance!

Hey! I didn't study Hamlet, but 9 quotes seems a tad low for the close study. Like, that's nine quotes for the whole essay, which works but only just. If they throw a curveball or demand analysis of a specific scene you could be in trouble.

I'd go for more - Exactly how many is probably just dependent on how many you can remember, and on how you use them in your analysis. I was hardcore for Module B, remembered about 50-60 quotes across the seven speeches I studied, but that's what suited me and my writing style. It is different for everyone

[jamonwindeyer]

Hey guys!

I was just wondering which related text is better to use for Module C: Representation of People and Politics. Mind you, my prescribed text for this year is BNW by Aldous Huxley.
Either;
- Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
OR
- Utopia by Thomas More

Thankyou!

Hey! Which one links to the concepts better, in your opinion? Which one, based on your analysis so far, has more techniques? That would be the one I would go for

Hi
in Mod B I always included 2 critics in my essays (one per poem). After the Trial's my teacher told me to not include any critics at all. Is this alright? Will I lose any marks for not including critics?
Thank you

Nope! I never did - They are just another (optional) tool for use in your analysis '

Hey, guys
can someone pls explain how i would answer this question?
thanks

Hey Becky! I don't see a question, did an attachment go missing perhaps?

[georgiia]

Just wondering If I could post thesi here for feedback like you have with the AOS thread? Thx!

[jamonwindeyer]

Just wondering If I could post thesi here for feedback like you have with the AOS thread? Thx!

Sure

[georgiia]

Sure

Thank you!!

[Yotopioto]

Hello? I was wondering if your ORT needs to be a different form as your prescribed text. My prescribed text is a novel, will I get marked down if a choose a novel as my ORT?

[georgiia]

Hello? I was wondering if your ORT needs to be a different form as your prescribed text. My prescribed text is a novel, will I get marked down if a choose a novel as my ORT?

I think it's recommended that you use different textual medium but you won't automatically get zero or anything.


I'm doing T.S. Eliot for mod B and was wondering if it's acceptable to after I've introduced the poems in the paragraphs to just refer to them as Prufrock or Magi as opposed to writing the whole name.

e.g "In Prufrock Eliot....." "Furthermore, Magi...."

And can I put them in inverted commas if it's not the full name?

Thanks!!

Mod Edit: Post merge

[beau77bro]

answering Mod A essays - should we have para comparing texts together or apart?
like 1 para comparing texts and contexts on a theme, or 2 paras, one for each Text on each theme?

[mjorfian]

answering Mod A essays - should we have para comparing texts together or apart?
like 1 para comparing texts and contexts on a theme, or 2 paras, one for each Text on each theme?

Hey, it's completely up to you how you approach it. You could either do 4 paragraphs ie. prescribed , related, prescribed, related, or you could integrate them into the same paragraph if they're discussing the same 'theme' as you said.

This is how I structured mine and I found was the easiest/most flexible for me personally.

intro

body 1:
text 1
text 1 context
text 1 analysis
link to text 3 (ie. similarly.. in...)
text 3 context
text 3 analysis
linking sentence to main concept discussed and your thesis

bod 2: repeat of bod 1

conclusion

[jamonwindeyer]

I'm doing T.S. Eliot for mod B and was wondering if it's acceptable to after I've introduced the poems in the paragraphs to just refer to them as Prufrock or Magi as opposed to writing the whole name.

e.g "In Prufrock Eliot....." "Furthermore, Magi...."

And can I put them in inverted commas if it's not the full name?

Thanks!!

Use the full name once in the intro, then put the abbreviation in brackets immediately after - From that point use the abbreviation (and yep, inverted commas is what I prefer to see when I read, but really no biggie)

[beau77bro]

what is a technique for quotation at the end of a poem - is it an epigraph?

[georgiia]

what is a technique for quotation at the end of a poem - is it an epigraph?

Yeah it is