Discovery Creative Writing Help (1 Viewer)

appleibeats

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My mate had a sibling who wrote a story like 5 years ago and used it in the hsc. He says he's going to use the same one but tweak it to Discovery of course.

I am worried that I should I advise him not to.
But its been so many years, and there are so many creative each year, isn't it like over 70 000 people who sit the english paper 1 and the markers would have changed presumably. ( but i read it gets marked by 11 markers ??)

Should I tell him not to???
 

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I'm guessing there's not much chance he'd get in trouble.
 

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Our english teachers claim creative writing (as well as essays) get marked twice and average given however if there is significant difference (I'm guessing +/-2 or more) then a third teacher marks and so on.

Very unlikely they'll recognise an original story from 5 years back, just double check sites like HSCintheholidays, scribd, studymode etc. tht his brother didn't plagiarise or upload to those websites.
 

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Honestly, for future reference it's silly to copy a creative word for word as the exams are becoming really specific and it's becoming increasingly difficult to use a creative word for word.

You should encourage him to learn discovery and write his own, tell him he can be inspired by the description as it's actually perfectly fine to, I mean I borrowed descriptions from books I found to be nice (obviously phrasing them completely differently)
 

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