[English] RE: english Digest, Vol 29, Issue 3

[scottlangan]

Audience Statement Limiting/Potentially Confusing

I felt the Context Prompt was interesting enough for Encountering Conflict but do have concerns about the description of the intended audience/publication (used for all four Contexts).  I feel that many students, (especially the weaker and middle mark range students), would think persuasive and/or expository equates to newspapers and may have been scared away from attempting a more creative text type/writing style because of this statement.  Maybe this is what the examiners were hoping would happen?  It is a shame that the first time we have seen this fairly specific kind of audience/writing style positioning is in the End of Year Examination.

Cheers,

Scott Langan
Head of English
Girton Grammar

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   1. So what are our thoughts on today's English exam?
      Particularly the context prompts? (Jan May)


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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:13:43 +1100
From: "Jan May" <Jan.May at stleonards.vic.edu.au>
Subject: [English] So what are our thoughts on today's English exam?
        Particularly the context prompts?
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