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Audience: the people who are reading the text. For a text you are reading, you are the audience; for a text you are writing, the audience is usually specified - if not, it is assumed that your audience is a generally well-educated Australian. Why does the audience matter? The context in which...

emacs is the most hopeless editor ever, IMHO :) then again I use (g)vim because it's purdy.. I wouldn't say installing linux is overkill because you learn some very nifty stuff that you can use on the uni lab computers (shell scripts, shell commands, How To Use Man etc). then again I...

Essay writing I have to say I’m probably not the best person to comment on writing essays considering I haven’t done one for over two years.. but if you would like to read my guide then I hope it assists you in some way. For your essays in English (Advanced) you will be exploring and...

Well.. eex2 is usually one of the more sedate English forums up until about August when all the 'omg i haven't started help me!' threads come in :D I would be quite happy to take moderator requests for the eex2 forums, by the way - so 04ers if you have some time and you'd be interested in...

I called my old school - they got the paper 10 mins ago (hardcopy though!) Very straightforward paper: Question 1 : 4 unseen texts Cd-rom cover Powerpoint presentation Prose (longish) Prose (shortish) Question 2 : creative task About the process of journeying Question 3 ...

You need to be able to refer CLOSELY to your related texts ... most markers will be able to pick out when you haven't got a clue what you're talking about ;)

Hm you'd have to write it well - don't just write random things for the sake of it (see: postmodernism, metafiction). It's fine though, can get you good marks too ;) Jargon .. probably only in appropriate contexts (eg. your main character is a pirate so he keeps saying 'arr'.). Again don't...

If you're writing a feature article or a story a title is one of the techniques, so you may be interested in including it. (does that answer your question?) - no marking down or anything tho. To contrast is to compare two texts on their similarities and differences. Juxtaposition is a...

That was nice:) I do have a query.. how can something has died be writing about its life? ;)

Area of Study my brother is now in year 12 and he was just asking me how on earth to remember all this stuff for Ive decided instead of just telling him I should post my own advice so others can benefit as well. I should mention that Lazarus had a hand to play in the guide too! I just padded it...

Then you should have made it more obvious :) An easy way to make it obvious is to put the object in the TITLE of your short story eg. "The House" and then never mention the fact that it's a house again...

You shouldn't have to do that. It indicates that you weren't confident enough with your writing... definitely don't want that ;)

I always say that the first thing you should do is answer the question. In the intro if you state your thesis it may make it easier to follow your arguments especially if you're talking about a variety of types of journeys. However it's not necessary.. if you remember to keep referring to it...

Swearing is acceptable in appropriate contexts, but avoid using colloquialisms. Racism and discrimination .. well, let me just say that if a marker realises they are offended by a particular response they will pass it to another marker to mark. I don't know how this will influence your mark...

'Too long' would mean that it takes you more than 40 minutes to write under exam conditions. The average length is about five or six pages per essay depending on your handwriting style and speed - I think some people can write up to ten pages (HSC booklets) but they may be sacrificing time in...

That's why you have to make it obvious throughout the piece, without actually stating what the object is. The idea behind most of those kinds of pieces is that the reader thinks it's a human talking, then they realise at the end that it's not human. If they read it again they'll notice all the...

If you wanna know how much I petitioned for Anc Hist subforums just ask any of the other mods ... aiiya. Ian's done them (YAY FATMUSCLE! WE ALL LOVE YOU!) If you report the posts of trolls it will assist us in banning them. I forget if I've answered this post already, but yeah.

Hi, please try the English AoS forum located here: http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/forumdisplay.php?f=44 .

Section 1 SHOULD be the easiest marks in your exam. I say SHOULD because a lot of people underestimate it :) How to prepare.. analyse texts that you find, or do past papers. Just because the texts are unseen doesn't mean that you can't at least prepare for them! You know there will be at...

Yeah, I did it in 02. I don't remember what I got :D too long ago. This is spam so pm me if you want anything else or keep it on topic :D ta.