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NSWEnglish Extension 2The Major Work
Quick questions on The independent investigation for the HSC English Extension 2 Major Work
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What is reading like a composer?Show answer
A critic reads a text to interpret it. A composer reads it to steal from it. When you investigate a model, the question is not only what does this mean but how did the writer make it do that, and could I do something similar. You are reverse-engineering technique.
What are keep concept and form investigation in separate, dated columns?Show answer
When you sit down to evidence the investigation in your Reflection Statement, a journal that already separates the two strands lets you write "investigation into form taught me X, investigation into concept taught me Y" without having to reconstruct which insight came from which strand months later.
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