HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC.

This HSC English preparation course focuses on English Advanced Module C: The Craft of Writing.

This one-day course provides:

• a comprehensive overview of the course requirements
• a review of the mandated general features of writing (allusion, imagery, narrative voice, characterisation and tone)
• an explanation of key vocabulary
• an analysis of the relevant 2019 HSC question, plus other NESA specimen questions
• explicit teaching of how language evokes emotion, in a selected group of texts from the prescribed list
• close analysis, individual activities, and group discussion on prescribed texts
• activities based upon the five required styles of writing (imaginative, discursive, persuasive, reflective, and informative).

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• analyse and respond to the syllabus and prescriptions for the HSC Advanced English Module C: The Craft of Writing
• differentiate and respond in mandated styles of writing: discursive, persuasive, imaginative, reflective
• replicate and redeploy devices used in the prescribed texts within their own writing
• understand that key literary features (eg characterisation, voice, tone) include a sub-set of other elements
• make appropriate semantic choices to describe literary devices, stylistic cho