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[Wizjaro]

Heres another one - these are such big stinkers:

Stimulus 1: A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Sir Winston Churchill

Stimulus 2 – I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky. ... John Masefield, Sea Fever

Yea questions like these are a great example of the potential versatility of mod C questions

 

[zizi2003_]

ok so the issue is that i dont mind writing on the spot for mod C
BUT what if I dont get the question itself?? like how do you interpret something like what @uniqueusername1 mentioned^

 

[uniqueusername1]

ok so the issue is that i dont mind writing on the spot for mod C
BUT what if I dont get the question itself?? like how do you interpret something like what @uniqueusername1 mentioned^

don't worry if you didn't get it I probs didn't either lol.

Just write what you think it means. What else can you do?

Just BS in the reflection lol.

 

[Wizjaro]

ok so the issue is that i dont mind writing on the spot for mod C
BUT what if I dont get the question itself?? like how do you interpret something like what @uniqueusername1 mentioned^

Well that's the thing about English, it is subjective. As long as you can explain why you took it in such a way in your reflection you should be fine. For instance one stimulus I came across was about wolfs and I wrote about constancy vs change because the extract kept repeating the word haha.

 

[zizi2003_]

Well that's the thing about English, it is subjective. As long as you can explain why you took it in such a way in your reflection you should be fine. For instance one stimulus I came across was about wolfs and I wrote about constancy vs change because the extract kept repeating the word haha.

true true...do you have any tips on coming up with ideas quickly esp for discursives? also, do you usually have 3 body paras/main ideas for discursives?

 

[uniqueusername1]

true true...do you have any tips on coming up with ideas quickly esp for discursives? also, do you usually have 3 body paras/main ideas for discursives?

theres no real structure for discursive as you're not trying to convince anyone or anything. But I like discursive cause you can just write what comes into mind and it flows pretty easily.

 

[uniqueusername1]

Well that's the thing about English, it is subjective. As long as you can explain why you took it in such a way in your reflection you should be fine. For instance one stimulus I came across was about wolfs and I wrote about constancy vs change because the extract kept repeating the word haha.

Its all fun and games until they remove the reflection component...

 

[zizi2003_]

theres no real structure for discursive as you're not trying to convince anyone or anything. But I like discursive cause you can just write what comes into mind and it flows pretty easily.

exactly omg i sooo hope they give us a choice

 

[uniqueusername1]

exactly omg i sooo hope they give us a choice

i'm kinda screwed if its persuasive. Last time I wrote persuasive was in year 3 lol.

 

[Wizjaro]

true true...do you have any tips on coming up with ideas quickly esp for discursives? also, do you usually have 3 body paras/main ideas for discursives?

Anecdotes are your best friend and they don't even have to be real(which is the best part). Rhetorical questions are also a staple of discursive so would recommend. So just find a third technique which you vibe with.(allusions and extended metaphors and recurring motifs come to mind.) Also make sure your topic is very clear from the get go, It shouldn't become clear halfway through the piece ya feel me? Also I don't tend to have a set limit of ideas but yea 3+ paragraphs make a good discursive in my opinion haha.

 

[zizi2003_]

i'm kinda screwed if its persuasive. Last time I wrote persuasive was in year 3 lol.

um same...
but then again ig it's like an essay except u use first person and a bit more informal ig ig

 

[uniqueusername1]

um same...
but then again ig it's like an essay except u use first person and a bit more informal ig ig

no i don't think you use first person in persuasive. Do you? I'm pretty sure thats just discursive.

 

[zizi2003_]

no i don't think you use first person in persuasive. Do you? I'm pretty sure thats just discursive.

nah we can
spotty is a persuasive speech and atwood uses first person narration + anecdotes etc etc throughout

 

[uniqueusername1]

nah we can
spotty is a persuasive speech and atwood uses first person narration + anecdotes etc etc throughout

fair enough. Common, Mod A and Mod B gonna carry me lol.

 

[zizi2003_]

Anecdotes are your best friend and they don't even have to be real(which is the best part). Rhetorical questions are also a staple of discursive so would recommend. So just find a third technique which you vibe with.(allusions and extended metaphors and recurring motifs come to mind.) Also make sure your topic is very clear from the get go, It shouldn't become clear halfway through the piece ya feel me? Also I don't tend to have a set limit of ideas but yea 3+ paragraphs make a good discursive in my opinion haha.

waitttt
how can we use an extended metaphor / motif in a discursive?

 

[zizi2003_]

fair enough. Common, Mod A and Mod B gonna carry me lol.

same same
i have 0 expectations from english generally lol

 

[uniqueusername1]

same same
i have 0 expectations from english generally lol

if you walk out confident you know you messed up.

If you think you cooked up an absolute stinker you might of done well lol.

Well thats what happens to me.

 

[zizi2003_]

if you walk out confident you know you messed up.

If you think you cooked up an absolute stinker you might of done well lol.

Well thats what happens to me.

AHAHHAHA english and being confident dont go well together

 

[Wizjaro]

waitttt
how can we use an extended metaphor / motif in a discursive?

Ok so drawing from one of my Mod C texts, A home in fiction, an extended metaphor of the ocean/water is used throughout as a way for the composer to explore the power of writing. And in an earlier discursive I wrote at like the start of year 12 I used a plant as an extended metaphor(though this does tend to be overused). Recommend unique ideas include a dagger(idk sounds cool.), a computer(idk anything about tech though), soap(the possibilities are endless.) Idk I feel like choosing the symbol is the funnest part because you begin to tear apart simple objects in your life and find abstract meaning in them. A good example was one of my friends had an extended metaphor of an onion and it was written beautifully.

 

[hellohowslife]

Yo does anyone know how i can improve my handwriting in 4 days