werdna's essay-writing initiative - TIMETABLE on pg 1

[funkyducky]

@werdna:
Definitely. If you throw in too much complex vocabulary and over-embellish your writing, it'll just create mess and confusion. The examiners will get bogged down in the words and struggle to decipher the meaning behind the mess. Sure, you can flaunt your extensive vocabulary here and there, but your first priority should be getting your message across succinctly, fluently and clearly.

[m@tty]

@werdna:
Definitely. If you throw in too much complex vocabulary and over-embellish your writing, it'll just create mess and confusion. The examiners will get bogged down in the words and struggle to decipher the meaning behind the mess. Sure, you can flaunt your extensive vocabulary here and there, but your first priority should be getting your message across succinctly, fluently and clearly.

See most of pooshwaltzer's posts.


Just one example:

Gospel is an attempt to preach the virtuosity of faith's domain. It is the unremittingly fundamental extension of one's trust towards some esoteric belief system; one belonging to the realms of ethereal existence. These values assert the quintessential for exercising absolution from renounced evils, the denunciation of which requires dedication, forbearance and perseverance. The youth of our society - children, juvenile youngsters, adolescents, fledgling adults exist in under the saturation of worldly exposures. These can range from the lesser misgivings to the downright Satanic. Suffice to say, an inexhaustible reserve of popular pervasive antagonistic influences include domestic violence, substance abuse, illicit conduct and other behavioural misdemeanours. And these exemplary perturbations are as yet still within civil jurisdiction. Presiding rule of law and its inability to resolve these perennial matters presents a dilemma of conscience. Being young means being vulnerable. Vulnerable to the suggestive, attractive luring of insidious sources. The Gospel is a cause which seeks to equip the uninitiated novice with sanitised values, norms and ethos. It provides them with the tools which purvey moral fortitude and ethical subsistence the necessity of which goes towards ensuring spiritual survival.

And this is his toned down vocab :buck2: It used to be even more obscure and out-of-place..

[Andiio]

@werdna:
Definitely. If you throw in too much complex vocabulary and over-embellish your writing, it'll just create mess and confusion. The examiners will get bogged down in the words and struggle to decipher the meaning behind the mess. Sure, you can flaunt your extensive vocabulary here and there, but your first priority should be getting your message across succinctly, fluently and clearly.

See most of pooshwaltzer's posts.

So true.

[eeps]

See pooshwaltzer's posts.

LOL yes, I never understood anything of what he said. =\

[tarek]

i'm in when do we start?

[funkyducky]

I hate weasel words.

[Furbob]

I wasn't very good at English in yr 11 (only been averaging B+) but I'm up for this~

[m@tty]

I hate weasel words.

To see ninwa take him and his weasel words apart, direct your attention here.

[werdna]

OK guys, please see the first post. I've edited and updated it with a revised version of this initiative.

I need to know:

1. Which members would like to be a 'qualified marker' for the ranking scheme.
2. What your text response topics are.

Please post a reply below, just so the texts don't get repeated. Thanks everyone!

[funkyducky]

Sign me up please!

If there's anything I need to succeed in English next year, it's something that'll force me to write English essays and not procrastinate.

[chrisjb]

@werdna:
Definitely. If you throw in too much complex vocabulary and over-embellish your writing, it'll just create mess and confusion. The examiners will get bogged down in the words and struggle to decipher the meaning behind the mess. Sure, you can flaunt your extensive vocabulary here and there, but your first priority should be getting your message across succinctly, fluently and clearly.

IMO, random latin terms outranks complex 'sophisticated' english words any day of the week

[werdna]

Sign me up please!

If there's anything I need to succeed in English next year, it's something that'll force me to write English essays and not procrastinate.

Done. Which text response texts are you studying? I'm add them to the list.

[chrisjb]

@wendra, my first text of the year is The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif and my conflict is encountering conflict.

[luken93]

Year of Wonders & Imaginative Landscape

Very good initiative, me like

[HERculina]

Just one example:

Gospel is an attempt to preach the virtuosity of faith's domain. It is the unremittingly fundamental extension of one's trust towards some esoteric belief system; one belonging to the realms of ethereal existence. These values assert the quintessential for exercising absolution from renounced evils, the denunciation of which requires dedication, forbearance and perseverance. The youth of our society - children, juvenile youngsters, adolescents, fledgling adults exist in under the saturation of worldly exposures. These can range from the lesser misgivings to the downright Satanic. Suffice to say, an inexhaustible reserve of popular pervasive antagonistic influences include domestic violence, substance abuse, illicit conduct and other behavioural misdemeanours. And these exemplary perturbations are as yet still within civil jurisdiction. Presiding rule of law and its inability to resolve these perennial matters presents a dilemma of conscience. Being young means being vulnerable. Vulnerable to the suggestive, attractive luring of insidious sources. The Gospel is a cause which seeks to equip the uninitiated novice with sanitised values, norms and ethos. It provides them with the tools which purvey moral fortitude and ethical subsistence the necessity of which goes towards ensuring spiritual survival.

And this is his toned down vocab :buck2: It used to be even more obscure and out-of-place..

That was actually written in attempt to help me with my RE essay 
NEVERRRR AGAIN SHALL I FALL VICTIM TO THIS!