What are some websites that are similar to "The Conversation" and "The Age" ?
What do you mean by 'similar to?' If you're just looking for general news sites, the Google News browser feature is a good way of comparing sources. Or if you're looking for similar opinions/ biaises, perhaps googling similar issues covered by these papers would be useful. Sorry, not entirely sure what you're looking for, but Google is probably better than me here
Hello!
I have a sac on Lit next week and I have no idea how to approach it. I know the structure in general terms: make language your central focus. I learn through examples and I tried reading them but I can't understand it (yes, that's how bad I am)
Please help me. The lit thread doesn't have the Q & A thread like here so I'm posting it here. Hopefully someone can help me? By the way, the text we are studying is Kinglake 350
You can make a new thread on the Lit boards if you need to ask something specific. I'm guessing your first SAC is the Adaptations and Transformations one? Make sure you're clear what the task is asking you to do first, and then it'll be easier to determine what you need to work on.
Hi guys,
In terms of study guides, which companies produce the best ones? I'm stuck on getting either Insight or VATE. Also, are study guides for context theme useful? I'm doing Whose Reality if that helps.
Thanks!
Definitely VATE, 100%. Insight is marginally helpful with the really basic textual stuff (plot, character maps/development, sometimes themes) but VATE is basically all analysis. Even their summaries are filled with good analysis, so unless you're struggling with the comprehension of your text, you''ll get much more use out of a VATE guide than Insight or NEAP or TSSM if they're still running.
(^That said, some of these companies produce the odd good guide every so often, it just depends on the text. Maybe suss out a sample first, or get a bunch of friends from school to pitch in $2 and you can share it around like clever cheapskates
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Tbh my first resort would just be to google '
text name vce english resources/analysis/prompts' and you should get a fair few bits and pieces to use. If you're doing some of the more popular texts, then sites like
English Works should have some good discussion. Otherwise you might have to rely on all those wonderful schools who upload resources and don't require you to have a school login to access them.
<3 Mentone Grammar and Brunswick Secondary In my experience, the Context guides are less helpful just because of the sheer enormity involved in Context studies. The published materials are either too rigidly diagnostic (if you're not doing a straight expository essay with the exact textual/external examples they're using, you're on your own,) or they try to cover everything and end up being too broad (eg. a single A5 page devoted to each different form and style, meaning you'll have about 30 pages that are fairly useless to you, and only ~400 words that you'll use form that section.)
Context is very much about originality, and although observing and adapting other people's approaches is important, you're better off working out where you sit first, and then using resources to build up your weaknesses, rather than starting someone else's method from scratch. More than any other essay in English, Context is really a matter of individual strengths, and you could attempt the exact same approach as someone else, but fall flat because it simply doesn't suit you.
If you've been dependent on study guides in previous years, and money is no issue, then these might help give you some groundwork in the early months. But if you're using them properly, guides will overstay their welcome before long, and you'll need to go beyond and develop your own interpretation and approach.
And in my incredibly un-biased opinion, you can get way better stuff from ATAR Notes anyway