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As the HSC exams approach, a lot of you are probably wondering whether to memorise your essay, and if so, how much of it to memorise? See what some high-achieving former students did for their exams - what they learned by heart, and what strategies they used besides memorisation.

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It seems like your farmer could have been lured by ideals about city life - its vitality and sense of constant change. When he moves there however, he finds that if he hasn't changed as a person (perhaps he is anxious, or suspicious of people), then simply being in a new place isn't going to...

Sam Mendes' American Beauty is a great text to use as related material for Belonging or Discovery. It's sometimes studied alongside Miller's Death of a Salesman to explore the hollowness of The American Dream. The film's symbolism is not exactly straightforward, but very elegant once you...

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If you didn't nail your Area of Study creative piece and are on the lookout for new ideas, check out this article. It features three ideas about Discovery based off visual stimuli.

That's certainly a good reason to choose an easier text - the analogy would be choosing an easier subject which you know you'll excel at rather than doing poorly in Extension English or Maths. One way to make your analysis of Animal Farm more substantial would be to clearly highlight the...

Bladerunner could be an option. Markers like related texts of different mediums, so the Philip K. Dick novel wouldn't work with Brave New World. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep would be great for Wag the Dog, Henry IV, or even the Crucible, the other texts in that Representing People and...

Obviously it's really close to Brave New World thematically. But given that Animal Farm is commonly studied in years 9 and 10 in a lot of schools, it's best to choose a more challenging text. You want to demonstrate to markers with your choice of related text that you have been looking beyond...

Hey Amina, There are two viable options for structuring a module c essay: 1. To integrate your related text into each paragraph, spending only the end of the paragraph on it. 2. Spend an entire paragraph at the end of the essay on the related text. Whichever you choose, ensure that you are...

Have you tried using visual stimuli? Often visuals are better than textual stimuli because you can envisage what the universe in your narrative will look like from the get go, and that makes it easier to develop that world throughout the writing process.

If you want to do a film, how about Apocalypse Now, which is a 70s film based on Heart of Darkness? If you don't mind doing a novel, then you could try V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River - a novel loosely based on Heart of Darkness. Here's an analysis of how to link Naipaul's novel to the...

Here is an article that analyses a possible related text for People & Landscapes - a novel by the Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul, and also a sample paragraph showing you how to link your texts together.