5
Jun
Posted by Neil in English studies, HSC, creativity, student help. Tagged: 2009-2012 HSC, Blade Runner, Frankenstein. Leave a Comment
For starters, I can’t really offer advice online, except for general clues as in this post. The only ones I can directly help are those I see “live” and even there I never help with assessment tasks, except to help clarify the meaning of the task. That said, here is the request:
I’m a student doing [...]
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1
Nov
Posted by Neil in English studies, HSC, Media/Film studies, literature genres, student help, works/authors. Tagged: 2009-2012 HSC, Blade Runner, English literature. 2 Comments
My coachee was unfamiliar with the expression “can’t see the wood for the trees”, so I explained that it means losing sight of the whole pattern because details grow and grow at an alarming rate. This is a state many HSC students find themselves in. So how to guard against it?
Photo by Neil Whitfield [...]
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22
Oct
Posted by Neil in English studies, HSC, Media/Film studies, literature genres, student help, works/authors. Tagged: 2009-2012 HSC, Blade Runner, English literature. 5 Comments
There is no lack of material on the Internet about this famous novel. Those of you doing the 2009-2012 HSC in NSW must compare it with Scott Ridley’s 1982 movie Blade Runner, which you will also find on this site. You must attend especially to the context in which each work emerged, issues of genre, [...]
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12
Sep
Posted by Neil in English studies, HSC, Media/Film studies, esl for students, questions asked, student help, works/authors, writing. Tagged: Blade Runner, Brave New World. Comments Off
INTRODUCTION
This has now joined the other workshops on the pages here.
Hi I’ve written an incomplete essay on Brave New World and blade runner. Can you just read it and see if it’s going to the right direction and also what else can I write about?
Topic
Imagine you have interviewed the composers of the TWO prescribed texts [...]
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28
Apr
Posted by Neil in English studies, HSC, Media/Film studies. Tagged: 2009-2012 HSC, Blade Runner. Comments Off
Many NSW Year 12 Advanced English students will be interested in this: Blade Runner – REDONE?
(again?!).
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28
Dec
Posted by Neil in English studies, HSC, Media/Film studies, literature genres, student help, works/authors. Tagged: 2009-2012 HSC, Blade Runner, Brave New World. 3 Comments
This went up on my personal site on 2 May 2006.
I mentioned yesterday that I was rereading Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopia, using the Vintage Classics edition of 2004. David Bradshaw’s 1994 preface to that edition really is very good on the novel’s context and on its ambivalence: one is never sure whether Huxley [...]
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