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Re: Advanced English essay writing guide, 2nd edition INTRODUCTIONS Introductions are strange beasts. Many teachers claim they mean little to nothing, as long as your body paragraphs are good. Others claim that they set expectations which they mark to for the rest of the essay. Most markers...

Re: Advanced English essay writing guide, 2nd edition THE SYLLABUS AND YOU You’re a teenager. You have multiple commitments, including but not limited to your subjects (of which English is one of maybe 6 or 7), sports, social life, co-curricular activities, extracurricular activities and a...

The 1st edition contained an extensive rant about the injustice of the 2 unit syllabus. I elected to save BOS the bandwidth this time, although I'll put it up if people are bored enough to want to read it. PREFACE (feel free to skip) A quality essay will use excellent technique (essay...

Haha wow, had no idea. I'll repost it.

Not the quickest way to improve your marks, but proven effective and a helluva lot cheaper than a tutor.

If you did, they wouldn't tell you.

This, a thousand times this. Dialogue gets crap marks because it's by and large crap dialogue. I used huge amounts of dialogue in my Extension 1 piece and it worked out fine. Markers hate the player and not the game. It's not surprising though when the only things most people read for fun...

Is the essay itself related to an exam question? If yes, then all you need is four or five paragraphs of analysed content (i.e. evidence with techniques) which is related back to the question. That is, it can be four from a list of sentences, paragraphs, quatrains, couplets, visual...

Dear Dragonmaster: I was an accelerant. 94 in assessment, 97 in the exam. Rounded out to 96. It took me a while to figure the structure out. Your pal, Tacitus

Dear world: If you are having trouble with your paragraph structure, please feel free to post questions in this thread. If you like, I can write demonstration paragraphs - all I need from you is 1. a question and 2. a quote or visual technique. Don't worry about context, I can Google...

http://community.boredofstudies.org/7/english-advanced/242668/essay-writing-guide-disgruntled-tutor.html ;)

Once a paragraph is fine. Just indicates to the marker you have the audience of a text in mind. *Crosses off a syllabus dot point* But also, if your linkage is long enough (and generally the longer the better, it's where the majority of marks are awarded), it's possible to make an entire...

There is a syllabus released by the Board of Studies with dot points (more than 3, about 20) that HAVE to be assessed by your school before the HSC. Each in-school assessment covers a few of those. That's why you have speeches and writing for different text types, like letters and feature...

Do you mean the integrated response in Part III of the Area of Study? A thing a lot of people miss is drawing links between the texts themselves to make their argument more solid. It's actually in the marking criteria. If you mean integration in the general sense, you don't need to keep your...

It's not so much about how relevant it is, more about knowing what it is. Like three-quarters of the techniques you get taught. :tongue: For example, not many people would see anything wrong about starting a sentence with 'And'. Back in the day, it was a capital crime against English. Nobody...

Thanks! I do hope it helps - feel free to ask any questions that come up. :)

CONVERSION TO OTHER TEXT TYPES The majority of work asked of you under exam conditions will come in the form of an extended response, better known as an essay. However, it is possible that your skills will be further tested by asking to present your analysis in another text type, or register. A...

CONCLUSIONS It is a very rare marker who has not already thought of a mark for an essay by the time they reach its conclusion. However, it is important that you don’t lose focus. The marks of a good conclusion are: - Maintaining an academic tone. Statements such as ‘By exploring the texts in...

Practice Body Paragraph (easy) The numbers are there to show what stage of the paragraph it’s up to (1 for Thesis, 2 for Context, etc. – refer to the original list) Practice question: How does your chosen text communicate the idea of belonging? Sample text: Call Of the Horizon (Jaksic...

BODY PARAGRAPHS (skip at own risk) These are slightly harder, and MUCH more important. Basically, you’re expected to prove the theme you brought out in the intro by using examples from the texts. Or even more simply, just give quotes significance and meaning. This is the ‘body’ of your...