Recent content by CSundstrom

English is fun! I like creative and poetry the best. Nothing like writing a fun piece of work and submitting it to some shady online literary magazine.

The main thing you have to do in a creative piece is have flair and originality. Its great to have a good idea, but if you have a mediocre one you can compensate for that with form. Innovative form always goes down well with markers. Like a regressive narrative (where you write it all...

Sydney Uni is live streaming the experiment at 7 tomorrow. My physics teacher is taking a few of us :) Should be fun.

Synthesising is all well and good in advanced, but in extension you must go further to achieve full marks. You must articulate the marriage between context, values and conventions within your synthesised analysis. E.g. Text X uses [convention + effect] and it exemplifies the value of [value]...

Yes, I think it connotes a fall. Others might argue. You can say as much as you'd like if you employ enjambment. Maybe split every line/sentence across two lines. If you wanted to keep it orthodox, you could use dactylic hexameter, which Homer used. It's used for epic poems quite a lot...

Woot go poetry in 2009! I just handed up my mini-major work for extension one (to see if we can go onto EX2). I did poetry! And I love it. Well to create a dactylic rhythmic pattern you have to have each line in dimeter. Have you read "Charge of the Lightbrigade" by Tennyson? That has a...