Superb Text Essay

This webinar will give your students the tools to make their text essays great. It is geared to getting the highest marks in English and Literature at VCE level and senior English

It covers:

sophisticated paragraphing – building in greater analysis,

managing a text by chunking – ‘getting a student’s head around an entire text by breaking it into its parts by function, labelling parts and recombining them like a jigsaw to give a complete understanding of how a text works;

using relationship diagrams for clarity, visual learners and for revision;

using Venn diagrams to clarify how texts work on a number of levels and how those levels interact;

encapsulation – the art of distilling a text’s essence into a succinct pithy statement that does not over and can be unpacked to reveal an in-depth analysis.

Also covered:

how to quote effectively

how to ‘text saturate’

how to achieve compression

how to be ‘expressive’

how to turn the topic into your friend graphically

how to structure your answer so it covers all aspects of a topic

how to ensure all criteria are met and in the right proportion

In general, how to make your essay stand out in the examiner’s pile of a thousand essays.