Context writing

Warning –this is not a text response!

ContextDraw on ideas suggested by

the contextWrite for a nominated

audience and purpose.Draw directly from at least

one textBase on ideas in the promptExpository, persuasive or

imaginative styleOne third of the total

assessment = one hourTo be completed in silver

script book.

CriteriaUnderstanding and effective exploration of the ideas, and/or arguments relevant to the prompt

Effective use of detail and ideas drawn from the selected text as appropriate to the task

Development in the writing of a coherent and effective structure in response to the task,

Controlled use of language appropriate to the purpose, form and audience.

• Main problems• Prepared answers/ideas• Over reliance on text(s)• Irrelevant outside

examples - forced• Informative style• Lack of complexity of

thinking• Overuse/repetition of

terms from topic• Superficial personal

anecdotes

• The key• Examine the ideas that arise

from the text. • Use broad/general

statements rather than examining only the world of the text

• Focus on the topic throughout• Avoid close text analysis –

examine what the writer is saying or reflecting about the topic

• Use the text that is most relevant

Preparing ideas

• THINK! CONSIDER, EVALUATE…...THINK!• Ideas need to come from the text but reflect broader

ideas and issues• What does the text suggest about conflict?• Avoid straight text analysis and summary• Extrapolate from the text – not just character/plot?• Practise writing broad statements that offer insight into

human nature or society or the nature of conflict• Try to write an essay without referring to the text then go

back and insert examples from the text that support your exploration of the prompt

Expository responseEssentially – an opinionative piece of writing – but contention is

broader/more conceptual and evidence is more discursive.

INTRO

Respond to the big idea in the question

Contention

BODY

Big idea

Outside elaboration

Text Link

Relevance to topic

CONC

Reiteration in light of discussion

ASSERTIONDon’t need to mention the text but the idea you will expand upon will come out of the text(s)

Eg: Conflict is..

society reflects…

BIG IDEAS THAT DEVELOP ASSERTION

A discussion and extension– text used to support the idea rather than as the basis for the paragraph

So this is what we can say about encountering conflict and the ideas suggested by the text

Paradise Road

• What ideas about human nature does this film suggest?• What ideas about the way that culture/society shapes

our beliefs, values and actions does this film suggest?• What ideas about the nature of conflict does this film

suggest?• What is assumptions about all of the above does the

prompt include?

Example of planning for essayASSERTION: PROMPT

Everyone is changed as a result of conflict.

• Big idea: When the status quo is overthrown it is often the innocent who suffer.

• Extrapolate: Those who question the status quo often become martyrs, most casualties of conflict are the innocent who become collateral damage.

• A link to the text/Universal Example: Political/military injustice/cultural and racial discrimination/prisoner’s of war/indigenous people who have been invaded

• Topic relevance: often initiators of conflict rise to great power while others suffer

Conflict is never justified because it dehumanizes everyone involved

Aspect/WITQRA?– Does initiating conflict or fighting the initiators of conflict

always lead to negative consequences?

• Insight? Broad overview

Types of conflict? Ideological/military/c cultural/personal

Reasons for conflict?

Changes as a result of conflict?

Without conflict there can be no questioning of what may be terrible injustices

Aspect/WITQRA?What is this question really asking?– Who is destroyed by conflict?

• Insight?• Broad overview

It would be lovely to think that those who initiate conflict end up destroyed, sadly in life they are often the ones who rise to power. Are they destroyed in other ways?

Must examine idea of destroyed:physically?morally?Emotionally?Spiritually?