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The Major Work
Quick questions on Working with form and language in the HSC English Extension 2 Major Work
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What is experiment before you commit?Show answer
Control comes from experiment. Strong students try a passage three ways: first person and third, present and past, fragmented and continuous, then choose on the evidence of what each version does to the reader. The journal is the place for this experimentation. Composition is not transcribing a fixed idea; it is testing forms until you find the one that makes the concept land.
What is letting investigation feed craft?Show answer
The independent investigation is where craft is learned. Studying how accomplished composers achieve effects gives you techniques to adapt, and the move from imitation to control is how a writer matures across the year. Every technique you can name and deploy on purpose is usually a technique you watched someone else use and reverse-engineered.
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