What does this mean exactly?
I thought it just meant somehow incorporate the quotes from stimulus material into your essay
Or does it mean write and build a whole paragraph on the stimulus material ?
Each quote will usually have a certain theme. Take for example, this quote from 08 vcaa exam q20; "Technology expands the scope and choice about where, when, how and with whom conversations take place." In your essay you would most likely have a paragraph based on technology's influence on language use.
or this one:
"Text allows [people] to have a bit of fun and flirt, and then they can say things they wouldn’t normally say."
You would obviously be talking about 'text', and especially focus on the last part of the quote in your discussion. Maybe talk about people creating a 'false identity' through text, or the exact opposite between people of close social distance. There are many ways in which you can discuss a quote in EL.
another:
"There's no such thing as a demise of language; it changes, language moves in a different direction and
evolves all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development. It's this zero
tolerance approach that I don't [agree with]." (David Crystal, Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, 27
February 2007)
For this one, you would talk about language change, with examples such as teenspeak, ethnolects, etc and focus on discussing that these examples show evolution of language, not the demise of it.
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