umaycallmealex said:
mm no offence to you, sir, but doesn't it say something about the state of HSC English when one has people on the internet asking to 'borrow' creatives?
I mean, what happened to the idea that creatives are (a) original (b) spontaneous?
BoS really needs to look at the way it runs its English courses, for fear that all the independent (and literary) components are lost and they become contests of studiousness and memorising/regurgitating pre-learned responses from the internet or from tutors.
LOL Wells, is THAT what you call ownage? I was expecting some massive dissertation in which you demolish some guy's argument! I agree whole heartedly that plagiarism is wrong on every level, but I think it's a tad idealistic to say that HSC creatives are "original" and "spontaneous". Something which is marked according to a strict set of criteria based on a unit of study in class can hardly be called spontaneous in any circumstances. And as for originality, sure that has a place, but everyone is trying to do the same thing: show their awareness of "ways of thinking". RFTG is pretty much only one way of thinking, right? The HSC is very much not about expressing your talent for English, but exactly as you say "memorising/regurgitating pre-learned responses". It would be very hard to tell tens of thousands of students to write the best story they could, and then attempt to rank these in mark order. Can you imagine the kerfuffle when there are no dogmatic criteria to adhere to? Sadly, the very nature of the assessment process precludes flashy displays of deep understanding. Wait a bit till uni (but there's a whole set of other problems there), and do an Arts degree like myself!
That said, I'm sure you did brilliantly in your exam today
Are you pumped for Physics?
