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Trials are looming, and many of you are probably frantically writing practice essays, or for those who have taken it easy so far, still looking for a decent related text. This article has you covered - it has a sample paragraph linking Judith Wright to a related text for People & Landscape...

I'm looking for two junior tutors to take on some students on my waiting list. If you're a recent high school graduate, or an older undergraduate/honours student looking for flexible and well-remunerated tutoring opportunities, then send me an email to rebecca@sleightofpen.com with your resume...

Context in Module B is relevant only if it contributes to your own critical reading of the play. For example, if you were to read Othello as a play about racial prejudice, you would spend a paragraph or less discussing the status of North Africans in Venice during the 16th century, and how the...

A nice thought, eyeseeyou. But I don't imagine Falsefallacy would be too pleased with that. :haha:

A guide to writing band 6 thesis statements and introductions here: https://sleightofpen.com/2016/07/04/how-to-write-a-band-6-thesis-statement-hsc-module-b-hamlet/ This response was to the very difficult 2014 HSC Q about Hamlet. The components of that sample response apply to almost every...

This might help you make sense of the second chapter, and hopefully launch some ideas for the rest of the book: https://sleightofpen.com/2016/05/15/the-art-of-travel-hsc-analysis-thinking-in-transit/

Hi Wasib, Are you in year 12 and doing the Discovery Area of Study? I have an article on visual stimuli and discovery-related creative writing ideas that can come out of them. https://sleightofpen.com/2016/04/28/discovery-creative-writing-ideas/

Thanks, eyeseeyou. Group tutoring would definitely help extend the service to more students, but even if you have a group of students doing the same texts, their skill levels will differ too much, and basically you'll get a similar result to regular classroom tutoring. At Y11 and HSC level, the...

From looking at section 1 of HSC & trial papers for the Area of Study, examiners are most interested in the following ideas about discovery and as such, they will choose texts which explore these ideas: 1. Self-discovery by way of an encounter which compels the individual to confront a...

I'm glad you found the posts helpful! Feel free to PM me if you have questions that I haven't covered on the website or in the forum. :sun:

Would it be better to: 1. Discuss three different ideas/values through the use of three integrated paragraphs OR 2. Discuss two different ideas/values, but two paragraphs per idea (one for each text) I assume with the first structure more ideas are being discussed, but the second one would...

The preoccupations about mental illness in Mrs Dalloway, or other types of stigmatised illnesses resonate in The Hours, but they are framed within modern issues/events/concerns. More details on the theme, as well as a concise guide on how to write about it in an essay, here.

The comparative essay is tricky because you're trying to integrate so many things - themes, context, and textual evidence of two texts. Here's a diagram I drew up which will help you visualise how these elements can all fit together. The sample theme is stigmatised illnesses, but there are some...

Some film ideas as related texts for Area of Study Discovery. https://sleightofpen.com/2016/05/19/films-about-discovery-for-hsc-related-texts/ It just occurred to me that J.M. Coetzee's novel 'Disgrace' would be a good related text also, for those of you assigned with a poetic, visual, or...

Emily Dickinson's short poem "There is no frigate like a book" is a good one. If anyone is doing a text-based prescribed text, here are some films you could look at.

Yeah, you need a related text of a different medium so you can compare techniques. A film or other visual text would be best. Here are some film options for you to consider, along with some key discovery ideas: https://sleightofpen.com/2016/05/19/films-about-discovery-for-hsc-related-texts/

Here are a couple of concise articles on the People & Landscapes text The Art of Travel: https://sleightofpen.com/2016/05/15/the-art-of-travel-hsc-analysis-thinking-in-transit/ https://sleightofpen.com/2016/02/16/art-of-travel-hsc-english/ You'll find ideas there that will help form a...

Here's an analysis of a novel by the Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul about Central Africa - plus a sample paragraph demonstrating how you can link prescribed and related together in an essay. You could also consider some of Virginia Woolf's short stories. See this article with an analysis and...

For those of you looking for more ideas on Mod C, People & Landscape : here's a quick analysis of themes and techniques of On Travelling Places from Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel : https://sleightofpen.com/2016/05/15/the-art-of-travel-hsc-analysis-thinking-in-transit/

A short article on themes & techniques in the chapter On Travelling Places. https://sleightofpen.com/2016/05/15/the-art-of-travel-hsc-analysis-thinking-in-transit/ Rebecca