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Although in actuality if I was doing The Secret River (TSR) it would probably look like <- that in its first mention and then be referred to as TSR from that point onwards but idk if this is actually good practice it just shaves a minuscule amount of time/effort
 

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Although in actuality if I was doing The Secret River (TSR) it would probably look like <- that in its first mention and then be referred to as TSR from that point onwards but idk if this is actually good practice it just shaves a minuscule amount of time/effort
i only ever mention the title in the intro + topic sentence & concluding sentence of one paragraph so ive just left it as the whole title cause its not taking up that much time
 

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me too dw i feel like my brain has officially reached maximum capacity idk about everyone else but i am sooo done and burnt honestly how hard can they make it? 😅
reeallll. ive compleetely locked out and i am struggling so hard to stay focused for ext but it feels impossible
 

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Sticking with a simple one-text-per-para structure, would it ever be foolish to talk about my related text second instead of last? I think I have a reasonable cause to do so and I think it would help me sustain my thesis better.
I did my texts in chronological order (in terms of when it was released), my first was hamlet (c. 1600), then Dickinson (mid-late 1800s) and then an artwork (early 1900s) - to help show the changes in views and ideologies and everything over time
 
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I did my texts in chronological order (in terms of when it was released), my first was hamlet (c. 1600), then Dickinson (mid-late 1800s) and then an artwork (early 1900s) - to help show the changes in views and ideologies and everything over time
Ok great cuz this is what I'm doing so I can argue that my texts represent a continuity/development of my concepts of upheaval
 

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Guys how are we supposed to do 2023 hsc section 2 with those big extracts?? Do we analyse them using literary techniques or what?
 

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should we include context of each text in the intro, i feel like it takes up too much time...
Not much, only write anything got to do with the thesis. For example: “Shakespeare’s titular tragedy Hamlet (1600) epitomises the anti mimetic nature of art and literature through Hamlet’s paralytic mindscape, resultant of conflicting Feudal and Humanist paradigms.” But not: “Written during a period of burgeoning humanist philosophies, Shakespeare’s titular Hamlet affirms Feudal social structures such as divine preordination while simultaneously proposing the effect of Renaissance Humanist philosophy” (idk I wrote the second one on the spot)

save the context for the peels
 

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Guys how are we supposed to do 2023 hsc section 2 with those big extracts?? Do we analyse them using literary techniques or what?
In your intro and paragraphs you need to mention the extracts and how they relate to each of your chosen themes/texts. For example, I did elective 4 (mindscapes) and one of the themes of the extract was the idea of how people perceive themselves and the world they’re in (a prominent feature of the module description!). In one of my paragraphs I might say: “The extract affirms Frida Kahlo’s perception of self, both resultant of yet liberated from the past, expressed in a nuanced reflection on the complexity of her identity as shaped by past traumas and continued struggle”
Then mention how parts of the paragraph relate directly to snippets of the extract.

You don’t need to actually analyse the extract though!!!
 

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