HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module C: Craft of Writing
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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