Do we HAVE to have a mentor? (1 Viewer)
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What do you mean by "mentor"?
ohexploitable
hey
It's a teacher who assists the student with the major work.
OK thanks for the info; and you too ohexpl ...
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Yeah but my teacher said we should get a 'mentor' (like an ex-english teacher or something) to also assist us....
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You should, because you want as many people reading your work as possible - thus getting as much feedback as you can.
It's not a requirement anywhere in writing, but if you can find someone I'd highly recommend it. Shop around...ask people you know if they know someone who'd be genuinely interested in helping out a student with a creative piece. I never really set out wanting a mentor, but it just so turned out my drama teacher's husband was a publisher and was happy to help out. I don't think I would've achieved my 49/50 if I didn't have his services. There are also lots of people online who are willing to help...I did a suite of poetry and published a couple of mine on some popular poetry-sharing sites and got really good feedback.
Good luck with ext 2. It's such a great subject if you throw yourself into it.
Good luck with ext 2. It's such a great subject if you throw yourself into it.
Generally speaking, you don't really *need* to.
If you have a private tutor for english already, I would suggest asking him/her to read over your work once every 2 weeks or something to give you feedback.
Like a few people have already mentioned, you should get as many people to read your work as possible. Friends, teachers, relatives.
Personally for me, before handing over my final work, I paid a qualified teacher/4U marker from a different school to get some feedback (he basically took my work for the weekend and checked for *minor* spelling/grammar mistakes, suggested I cut down content that I felt I should've kept). Looking back, I wish I hadn't asked him for help, it was such a waste of $350... especially because my 4U teacher at school was the head teacher of the english department, and she was absolutely fantastic.
In the end, I didn't actually change my work according to his advice (as in cut down my work, which was short enough as it was).
If you have a private tutor for english already, I would suggest asking him/her to read over your work once every 2 weeks or something to give you feedback.
Like a few people have already mentioned, you should get as many people to read your work as possible. Friends, teachers, relatives.
Personally for me, before handing over my final work, I paid a qualified teacher/4U marker from a different school to get some feedback (he basically took my work for the weekend and checked for *minor* spelling/grammar mistakes, suggested I cut down content that I felt I should've kept). Looking back, I wish I hadn't asked him for help, it was such a waste of $350... especially because my 4U teacher at school was the head teacher of the english department, and she was absolutely fantastic.
In the end, I didn't actually change my work according to his advice (as in cut down my work, which was short enough as it was).
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Thanks ^_^ I've fixed it. Sorry for the brutal *typo* ... I was in a rush. Meh. That's no excuse though, huh?
Not to be trolling or anything, but the common/standard/correct practice is to use hyphen not apostrophe in "nazi-ing" ... at least most of the time anyway =)
Apostrophes are only used to indicate contractions or possession/ownership.
Damn I have too much time on my hands :-/
Ahem. ANYWAY, to the OP: I forgot to mention that you should also get other english teachers that you know from your school english department to read your work. I asked my advanced english teacher to read my work, as well as my teacher from Yr 10. This way, you'll get a rough idea of what other teachers prefer or look upon favourably which comes in handy especially during 4U internal assessments (particularly if you know who's marking your work).