I thought the viva voces were finished already? =/
Anyway these are some i have (every student was asked to hand in two questions privately to the english dept because we were going to be tested on two questions from a fellow EE2 student. luckily one of us sent a chain email around asking for eeryone's two questions and voila here we have a massive chunk of a list. its very substantial and possibly too much in-depth but if you can answer all of them then you should be more than fine
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Extension 2 English Viva Voce Questions
1. What has inspired you before and along the way of your Major Work?
2. Discuss the difficulties you had encountered during the course of your Major Work and the steps you undertook to overcome said difficulties and it’s impact on your Major Work in progress.
3. What problems or difficulties have you encountered in the process of your Major Work and how have you dealt with them?
4. How has your research affected the outcomes of your Major Work with respect to the initial aims in composing it?
5. How does your Major Work explore or reflect the conventions of your text type?
6. What has been the most unexpected thing you have come across during the development of your Major Work?
7. Discuss how your medium has harmonised with your ideas. Why have you chosen this medium?
8. What changes to content and form have you made throughout the process of your Major Work?
9. It is said that the main protagonists of short stories are reflections and personal interpretations of the writers themselves. How true has this been in your composition of your Major Work?
10. How has the use of your journal refined the themes of your Major Work?
11. Explain 2 important skills you have developed. How did these skills affect the final product?
12. Discuss the purpose of your Major Work and how it has affected the direction of your independent investigation and its influence on your draft composition.
13. How have personal experiences attributed to the depth of your Major Work?
14. What have you gained from undertaking the construction of your Major Work?
15. What types of resources did you use as your Major Work progressed/changed?
16. What aims did you originally have when first undertaking your Major Work? How have you reached some and why not others?
17. How did different forms of research complement your understanding of your Major Work and research?
18. What steps have you taken to revise and edit your work?
19. How has your journal helped you in the composing/editing of your work?
20. How do you think your research and usage of your chosen medium would help you in the future?
21. Explain 2 difficulties/problems during composition. Who/What inspired you and how did they help you overcome these difficulties?
22. What makes a good Major Work and how have you tried to apply it to yours?
23. What are you trying to achieve in your Major Work, and how have you gone about doing this?
24. What are the links between your Major Work and the Advanced or Extension 1 course you have studied?
25. What have you found to be the most rewarding part of the course?
26. In your investigation into content/form for your Major Work, how have you dealt with the information that did not coincide with your preconceptions? And how has this contributed to a greater understanding of yourself and your Major Work?
27. What do you like most/least about your Major Work so far, and why?
28. How has feedback helped you in your composition?
29. How has feedback influenced/ help your Major Work?
30. How has you study of the Advanced or Extension 1 English course aided the creation of your Major Work?
31. Has anyone read and critically evaluated your Major Work so far? How have their opinion affected and/or inspired the process of your Major Work?
32. How has feedback received on your Major Work affected your own understanding of your Major Work's structure, language, and concept?
33. In hindsight, what are some of the things you would have changed in relation to the construction of your Major Work?
34. Describe one of your original ideas - whether that is its style/audience/plot and comment on how it was transformed by influence of your independent research?
35. Do you believe a Reflection Statement should be an ongoing process or something done at the end?
36. Outline how you concept has evolved from the beginning of the course to your first draft, and relate these changes to research you have conducted or previous works in progress.
37. Where did you get your inspiration for the plot of your Major Work?
38. What literary devices have you used to engage your audience?
39. What have been the biggest influences on the construction of your Major Work?
40. How has this course led you to a greater appreciation of the form you have chosen?
41. Discuss the relationship between your Major Work and your knowledge, understanding and skills developed in the English (Advanced and Extension) courses.
42. How has feedback, from either your teacher or friends, impacted your Major Work?
43. With reference to one piece of research, explain how it has affected the trajectory of you work.
44. Discuss an object/person/idea that has been influential in the composition of your Major Work.
45. What advice would you give someone who wants to create a creative composition?
46. How is your Major Work a product of your Advanced or Extension class?
47. How has the genre and form influenced the language used in your Major Work?
48. What is the purpose of your Major Work?
49. Has your work deviated from your original outlook? How, why and what influences have led you to do so?
50. Has your original idea changed? If so, how and why?
51. Now that you have experienced the process of composing a Major Work, how successful do you believe you have been in terms of your ongoing independent investigation, your composition of your Major Work and your reflection and analysis of your work so far? Based on this, do you think that there is anything about the Extension 2 course that should be altered or could be improved?
52. How has your use of journals helped in the development and composition of your Major Work?
53. Did you have any major changes in direction? Explain.
54. What advice would you offer to a potential EE2 student on the continual process of the log? On how one must refer to the log for creative development and document the creative process in the log.
55. In reference to your research process, talk about one piece of interesting/unique form of research you conducted. Refer to an entry in your log.
56. Discuss the work of a composer whose language style(s) and structure(s) have influenced your own in the development of your Major Work.
57. How has your writing style been influenced by taking the Extension 2 English Course?
58. Do you think research is a critical part of your composition?
59. What have you learnt in your creative struggles which will translate into a positive outcome for your future?
60. “Critical feedback is the most useful” Discuss with your Major Work and your experiences.
61. Have any changes been made to the content or form of your Major Work? If so, explain your reasons.
62. What research have you conducted into your form, and how has it helped you?
63. What are the significant problems or issues that you have encountered during the investigation and composition of your Major Work and how did you overcome these problems?
64. What was the biggest obstacle you had to overcome in the process of your Major Work and what was your solution?
65. How has your research into form influenced your Major Work?
66. How is your work related to Advanced or Extension 1 English?
67. How has metre affected the delivery of your major work? [Only for Performance Poetry people]
68. Describe the most significant obstacle so far in the progress of the work, how it was overcome or otherwise dealt with, and what effect it had on the Major Work as a whole.
69. What was your inspiration(s) for your Major Work?
70. What is the overall concept of your Major Work? What were you trying to achieve and how did you achieve it?
71. How has one of your characters or plot developed as a result of your progressive research?
72. What inspired you to write about your current concept?
73. Which writers influenced you most in the writing of your short story?