Not make it count unless it's in the best 10 units? If that's it - then that seems fairer, though it would basically drain all want of students to do English properly as they can be sure that it's not going to count. They'd lose their essay writing skills and the like. Science students need them especially, with the scientific journals and all.
Not the same as English essays.
The skills are essentially transferable.
But I get 10/15 in English and 18-20/20 in SOR2... Also, you write topic sentences differently and shit like that.
No, I'd argue the structuring is different enough.
To an extent.
mmm, not really. I study history at uni and my entire first year was spent trying to UN-learn the way i was taught and expected to write in HSC English. If i wrote an essay the way the HSC English course would have me write it, i probably wouldn't do all too well.
But still can we at least agree that the basic skill set of synthesising information and writing logically and coherently is common?
Yep. I had friends who had to redo an entire group assessment, with only a maximum of 50% possible to achieve, because they accidentally forgot to reference one line. And they got off lightly.