Good luck!

[JL_91]

I've done most of that book's short answers..I'll really be focusing on getting coherence/cohesion straight in my head, and CRAMCRAMCRAMMING for the essay Haha don't worry most of us are in the same boat...I wrote my first essay in ages today! I nearly always disappoint myself with the essays I write under exam conditions I've written many full-markers (or close to) outside a true exam situation in both mainstream and Eng Lang, only to massively screw up the real one that counts the most. Ugh. I'm hoping for a complete fluke tomorrow! And I'm just hoping for 41/42 scaled, no sky-high expectations because I feel so underprepared.

[ed_saifa]

>.< I always get confused with coherence and cohesion. All i want for this subject is a 35. Is that too much to ask?!!!

[JL_91]

No, never! I'm sure you'd probably exceed your expectations anyway. I doubt it would be as hard to get a 35+, 40+ etc. in a subject like this, as compared to a subject like Methods or Spesh. I think even if you drop no more than 13-15 marks on the exam you'd be in the running for a 40+ provided your SACs were decent.
It has taken me a whole year to half understand coherence and cohesion. I made my tutor give me a crash course on it on Monday, so now I 3/4 understand it...great! >_>

[Butler]

No, never! I'm sure you'd probably exceed your expectations anyway. I doubt it would be as hard to get a 35+, 40+ etc. in a subject like this, as compared to a subject like Methods or Spesh. I think even if you drop no more than 13-15 marks on the exam you'd be in the running for a 40+ provided your SACs were decent.
It has taken me a whole year to half understand coherence and cohesion. I made my tutor give me a crash course on it on Monday, so now I 3/4 understand it...great! >_>

I didn't have the best teacher, and it wasn't until going to the VATE lectures that I actually realised there was a big difference between coherance and cohesion. :|
I'm hoping for early 40's ss as well, I've averaged 95% for the sacs so hopefully the exam doesn't let me down.

[ed_saifa]

Does coherence include metaphors, alliteration, puns etc? The solutions to VATE 2007 really confused me. I'd always thought metaphors were under cohesion. =S

[JL_91]

Lol try doing it by Distance Ed - no teacher unless you make an effort to contact her! I hired a tutor who I saw once a week. And I didn't go to the VATE lectures but a nice person stole the notes and copied them for me But yeah coherence/cohesion...I'm stuffed if they try to make us write definitions for those..or for that matter, most terms. To ed: those things you mentioned come under cohesion.

I have no idea exactly what I got on the SACs, because it's Distance Ed's policy not to disclose the exact marks - they only give you a range. I know that I probably aced all the Unit 3 SACs, because my work came back with no comments whatsoever, but I know I sort of screwed up my first Unit 4 SAC...I'm hoping that doesn't let me down. I know the exam will though haha. I'd be happy if I could JUST squeeze into the A+ range...and if I succeed I'm probably going to do it by minimising the marks I drop in the first two sections, which leaves room for me to drop about 13 marks on the essay

[ed_saifa]

\rant I knew the VATE solutions were screwed!!!Argh

[AppleThief]

For anyone who wants clearing up

COHERENCE
- logical ordering: chronology, adverbials of time, dot points, sub-headings
- inference
- consistency: topic, lexical choice, degree of formality, same point of view

COHESION
- lexical cohesion: repetition, hyponym, hypernym, synonyms/near-synonyms, same semantic field
- reference: anaphoric, cataphoric, deixis
- ellipsis
- substitution
- connecting adverbials and conjunctions

- also: information flow, patterning

[ElephantStew]

good luck ppl!!!!! i'm also kinda worried about the essay :S

[Mao]

good luck people =]

[AppleThief]

3 hours and 23 minutes to go!

I'm getting anxious...but mainly because this is my first exam (apart from my solo performance).

[gta007]

Please be an easy essay question!

[ElephantStew]

just a quick question people, i cant find my glossary that i made, what is front focus!!!!? gah

[ed_saifa]

just a quick question people, i cant find my glossary that i made, what is front focus!!!!? gah

I dunno if this will help but my notes say front focus is new info then given info =S

[AppleThief]

just a quick question people, i cant find my glossary that i made, what is front focus!!!!? gah

When information that would usually be presented at the end of a sentence is presented at the start for emphatic effect/to give it prominence.

It gains audience attention, because it is an odd way of structuring information.

The examples Macmillan gives are:
"Honey, I love!" (end-focus/usual way would be "I love honey")
"To me, honey is nice. To you, it appears bland"

Also, it is a feature of written language moreso than speech...time to plan, etc.

Hope that helped.