Cosi study guides

[98.40_for_sure]

Is there any online study guides?

and for the ones you can buy at book stores, which one do you recommend?

[HungTran2009]

Um...if you just make general Google searches (such as 'Louis Nowra, Cosi') there are some resources (including PDF files) that are useful. Look at the first few pages that are generated...

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[98.40_for_sure]

I tried that... it gives me all this shit stuff. i want a real study guide! not some cheap ass 5 pages one with garbage character maps and background knowledge on the author

[HungTran2009]

Oh, I see :/

Well I guess Insight stuff is pretty good. But Cosi isn't that great a text in my opinion, so unless you plan to do it on the exam, I'd only really focus on the text for the SAC. Buying a study guide just for the SAC wouldn't be a great investment...but I'm not sure how competitive the English students at your school are...

I guess they could all buy the study guide, really. And study guides often make you think about the text in one dimension because they feed you information. I'd say it's better to discuss the text with a group of good friends who make sense

Just out of curiosity, what's your other Text Response text?

[98.40_for_sure]

A woman for all seasons. i killed that sac WOO!!

[akira88]

I got an Insight Cosi study guide but it wasn't that great, waste of $$. Don't think I'll be writing on Cosi in the exam too :S

[98.40_for_sure]

Can anyone give some feedback on the NEAP one? i'm thinking about writing Cosi on the exam since it's a new text, so if you write a better-than-ordinary essay, you have a better chance of obtaining higher marks. It's also a much shorter text... takes 2 hours to read it, as opposed to a man for all seasons which is like 250 pages of small sized text. I think there is a lot to write about in Cosi, it's just a lot harder to discover these as there aren't many sample essays. Nice themes though

[akira88]

Can anyone give some feedback on the NEAP one? i'm thinking about writing Cosi on the exam since it's a new text, so if you write a better-than-ordinary essay, you have a better chance of obtaining higher marks. It's also a much shorter text... takes 2 hours to read it, as opposed to a man for all seasons which is like 250 pages of small sized text. I think there is a lot to write about in Cosi, it's just a lot harder to discover these as there aren't many sample essays. Nice themes though

That's exactly how I was feeling about Cosi- since it is a new text, not as many people would be writing on it (assuming that of course) and therefore your work would stand out more than if it were within a bunch of many good essays (like 1984). I didn't know there was a NEAP Cosi study guide :O

[98.40_for_sure]

Yeah i just saw my friends one and it seems alright, i might get it since it's only like $10-15, you could always sell it for ~$10 anyway

[olly_s15]

this isn't the best but i'll upload it anyway

[98.40_for_sure]

That's not too bad,  i like the character description things and short concise chapter summaries. thanks man

[absurdlittlebird]

Don't think I'll be writing on Cosi in the exam too :S

You guys serious? I love Cosi, I feel like the more topics I sit and write on the more links I find within the text. Everytime I sit and write on Cosi I find deeper and new shades of meaning. I love it, definitely doing it on the exam.

Then again my alternative is Nineteen Eighty-Four.

As for studygides, they are hard to find for Cosi. My mum works in a school so she found me a VATE one, a Wizard one (which is terrible!) and a Cambridge one. I already had the insight one but it's pretty average. As for online stuff, there isn't really much. I found this really good one after heaps of digging and now cannot find it again. So annoying. But if I find it I'll let you know.

With Cosi most of my ideas are just coming out of class discussions and writing heaps on different themes. I know that sounds Cliche, but theres really not that much support material. The other thing you could do, if you have time, is watch the film. Then write down a list of things that have been changed in the film from the original play (remembering Nowra wrote the screenplay for the movie too) and then think about why he'd change them; what he was trying to say the first time round.
And above all, remember that because it is a play, every single character in that script means something, is there for a reason. Every word, every stage direction, each discription of setting. He only has 90 pages to convey his meaning.

I found approaching the text like that really helpful.

Yeah.

Do I sound like an ultra nerd now (:

[Linked]

So.. is it Neap, Insight or Cambridge thats the best one? Sorry that this is over a year later, but I just wanted to know I really want to get my hands on the best thats out there before they all go in bookstores

[24lover]

here you go:
http://www.vcestudyguides.com/guides/text_response/cosi

hope that isn't 'shit'. lol.

[hill1000]

Don't imagine for a minute that because the text is new, that there 'wont be many students writing on it!'  Its brevity alone will guarantee that it will be very popular.  Your response should be as previous posts have implied, multifaceted and offer priveliged and less priveliged viewpoints.