If you struggle with argument analysis, here's the easiest way to improve your essay with the least amount of effort:
Category: Argument analysis
How to analyse the visual in Argument Analysis
Do you neeeeeeeeed to talk about the visual in your argument analysis? YES! VCAA has made it very clear that analysis of the visual component in the text is very, very important! In order to do well in this AOS, students must analyse it as part of their analysis. So where should you write about it?
Audience in Argument Analysis?
The Argument Analysis essay task hasn't really changed in VCAA's new study design for VCE English and VCE EAL, but the performance descriptors is a little different! You still need to read (and now, watch or listen) to a persuasive text, then analyse them for their arguments and mechanics of persuasion. What HAS changed is that in the new performance descriptors, there is now...
The BIGGEST mistake in Argument Analysis
One of the biggest mistakes students make in the VCE Argument Analysis essay is to start a body paragraph with a persuasive device / persuasive technique / language feature. Students often forget that authors and speakers use persuasive techniques in service of an argument. Persuasive techniques do not...
What makes a good Argument Analysis?
In order to help our students succeed in this area of study, it's important to think about what their teachers and examiners are looking for in the essay. There are so many things teachers are looking for in an Argument Analysis essay - here is a quick (but not exhaustive) list: the depth of insight… Continue reading What makes a good Argument Analysis?
What is Argument Analysis?
There are 2 Areas of Study (AOS) in the old and new VCE English and EAL study design, called 'Exploring Argument' in Unit 2 (Year 11), and 'Analysing Argument' in Unit 4 (Year 12). Both AOS aim to teach our teens to identify an author's arguments how all the arguments interplay with each other how… Continue reading What is Argument Analysis?
How to improve your teen’s argument analysis
Argument analysis has been part of the VCE English/EAL study design for many, many, MANY years, in one form or another. And it will continue to be a part of the new study design! So how can we help our teens lift improve their analysis?
VCE English Exam Section C: Argument Analysis
The VCE English exam is probably one of the toughest exams out of all the VCE subject exams. Split into 3 essays, it is a HUGE 3 hours! If you have a teen who is doing VCE English 3/4 (aka Year 12 English) in 2022 or 2023, here's the breakdown of Section C of the dreaded exam.
Try these verbs instead of ‘describe’
Try these verbs for stronger argument analysis! How can a student write a good argument analysis essay? Analysing the article using great vocabulary! How can an English tutor or parent help their student write great argument analysis essays? At TSE Tuition, we like to focus on the verb. For a VCE Year 11 or VCE… Continue reading Try these verbs instead of ‘describe’
Try these verbs instead of ‘attack’
Try these verbs for stronger argument analysis! How can a student write a good argument analysis essay? Analysing the article using great vocabulary! How can an English tutor or parent help their student write great argument analysis essays? At TSE Tuition, we like to focus on the verb. For a VCE Year 11 or VCE… Continue reading Try these verbs instead of ‘attack’
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