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Ok so i think i screwed this question up as it said to write from the perspective of either a teen or parent, and i wrote from the perspective of an english teacher. I didnt specify whether she was a parent or not, although i do remember having some things written that could of been taken as coming from a parent.
Do any of you guys think it will matter?
I really hope whoever marks it doesnt pick up on it.
 

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I don't think it'll matter. As long as you wrote appropriately for an adult.
 

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i agree most teachers are parents

dont stress little things like these wont really matter in the SC
 

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MMk i hope so cos i really need a band 6 in english and if i dont get one im gonna be shattered.
 

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my friends wrote about msn and mobiles and stuff.
i interpreted communication differently, and i thought it was parents and teenagers talking to each other.
iis that still alright O_O
 

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I dont see why it wouldnt be..
its still communicating
i spose it could of been either of those, im sure your not the only one who did that
 

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simple-love-x3 said:
my friends wrote about msn and mobiles and stuff.
i interpreted communication differently, and i thought it was parents and teenagers talking to each other.
iis that still alright O_O
uhh probaly not im not really sure but most likely no
 

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i wrote about how easy it is to communicate nowadays with all the new technology available, and how its a good thing for teenagers..there wasnt a whole heap of high modality language, but maybe juust enough. well im hoping anyways.
 

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I wrote it from an old grannies point of view lol...saying back in my day blah blah blah
 

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=O i wrote like commincation as in parent-son/daughter face to face kinda stuff. oh wells. my story on the 'Lee waited for the phone to ring' thing was gayballs
 

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I didn't even specify who i was which was probably stupid. Whoever i was, i was outraged at the "unhelpful stereotypes" and "elitist" comments of the articles. Which was creative of me lol.
 

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you may lose a mark or 2 for not making the parent thing clear, but as long as the question serves the purpose, thats probably the worst you can expect.
 

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I like using extended metaphors in writing. It really makes your writing stand out and acts as a very sophisticated conclusion. Can't wait to get my results. Aced the letter to the editor and short story,

Hope my writing gets selected for the "exemplary samples" lol.
 

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simple-love-x3 said:
my friends wrote about msn and mobiles and stuff.
i interpreted communication differently, and i thought it was parents and teenagers talking to each other.
iis that still alright O_O

OH GOOD! I did too, hopefully it's ok. D:
 

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i wrote from the view of a parent who was a mother of 2 teenage boys. lol

makes complete sense seeing as im a girl.
 

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I screwed it up. I wrote from the view of a parent with two teenage daughters. It was written very badly.. and there was such limited space - so I couldn't cross anything out and start all over again.
 

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yeah i wanted to do that but i couldnt i was like shiittt!!

so mine was actually really not good.
 

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LOL. I wrote from a mother's perspective, about how pissed off at the editor she was for wrongly portraying teenagers as foolish, irresponsible and disrespectful in relation to their use of mobiles and technology marketed at teenagers.

It was very brief, and I don't think I wrote as much as I would have liked to, because it was one of my favorite questions in the English SC exam, after the short story.
 

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victoria10 said:
i wrote from the view of a parent who was a mother of 2 teenage boys. lol

makes complete sense seeing as im a girl.
haha nice! I did that too, except I was a mother of a 13 year old boy =P
 

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Mine was bad - I started talking about how I think there should be a 'text tax' to solve the problem of teenage communication.

Where we supposed to make reference to the article?
 

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