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Unit 1: Reading and exploring texts and Crafting texts
Quick questions on Drafting, revising and editing: VCE English Unit 1 Area of Study 2
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What is decide your purpose?Show answer
What is the piece for. To move a reader to a feeling. To advocate.
What is decide your audience?Show answer
Who specifically is the piece written for. A reader of a literary magazine. A class peer.
What is decide your context and mode?Show answer
A short story for an anthology is a different piece from a reflective essay for a school journal. Decide.
What is sketch a structure?Show answer
Not a paragraph-by-paragraph outline necessarily, but the rough shape: opening move, central tension or argument, close.
What is write through?Show answer
Get to the end of the piece before going back to fix the opening. The piece you are revising should exist as a whole.
What is allow the draft to be imperfect?Show answer
Bad sentences in a draft are not a problem. Missing scenes in a draft are. The draft's job is coverage.
What is time-box?Show answer
Give the draft a session length and finish in it. A draft you carry across a fortnight loses its energy.
What is is the piece doing what I planned?Show answer
Does the opening establish purpose, context, audience. Does the close land. Is the central move (the scene, the argument, the rendered experience) clearly the central move.
What is are the structural choices working?Show answer
Is the shape of the piece right. Are the paragraphs in the right order. Is the piece the right length.
What is are the mentor-text moves visible?Show answer
Did I use the moves I planned to use. Are they working. Should I add another.
What is read aloud?Show answer
A piece read aloud reveals rhythm problems a silent reading does not.
What are hunt for the verbs?Show answer
Strong verbs do the work of the sentence. Weak verbs leave the work to adjectives and adverbs.
What is trim?Show answer
Most Year 11 first drafts have ten percent too many words. The editing pass is where the words go.
What are check the conventions?Show answer
Spelling, punctuation, tense consistency, paragraph breaks. Markers notice.
What is sentence one: the decision?Show answer
Name what you set out to make. Purpose, context, audience.