How to COMPARE 2+ articles (VCE English Argument Analysis)

[@JLTutoring]

Here is a sample essay previously shared that shows how these sentences can be used in the context of a full essay: Here's my sample essay: docs.google.com/document/d/1h8Dek7rcofp8UkriWF2ARufy9V2VGdCF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108066837259649397465&rtpof=true&sd=true

[@lokin2624]

Hey, I was wondering what article this piece is analysing?

[@JLTutoring]

@@lokin2624 There's a couple of articles this video covers - however I used general terms such as 'Author 1' and 'Author 2' to show that you can use these sentence stems for a variety of articles. I didn't include the exact articles for this reason and because this is how I had it in my notes - which allowed me to apply these sentence stems to new contexts rather than being restricted to one article. Hope this helps :)

[@lokin2624]

@@JLTutoring I was wondering if you could link the article you used for the sample piece ?

[@JLTutoring]

@@lokin2624 oh my bad misunderstood your question. It is the 2019 VCAA Exam found here: www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/assessment/vce-assessment/past-examinations/Pages/English.aspx

[@jasminep8608]

thank you so much for this!!! have my sac tomorrow so this is really helpful :)))

[@JLTutoring]

Glad it helped :) Good luck!

[@deplix_6430]

Hey Julian this video was very helpful. when writing my topic sentences though, I often struggle to identify the argument type of one of the texts and don’t include it. Any tips to identify argument type?

[@JLTutoring]

Thanks :) So when writing the topic sentence, the first thing is you don't have to include the argument type in the topic sentence - given that you include it somewhere else (so that means you have a bit of time to think before you write). The reason I recommend including it in the topic sentence is because it's very easy to forget to include it later on. Also, I would say it is not the worse thing in the world if you don't include the argument type for the second text, especially if it's short. But in terms of identifying the argument type, I like to first determine whether the section I am analyzing is mainly LOGICAL vs EMOTIONAL (these are the 2 broad argument types). So you can use these 2 words, but you can also branch off and be more specific e.g. Another way to phrase logical arguments could be... 'practical, pragmatic, open-minded, authoritative, health-based, statistical, etc. And for emotional arguments, you can just specify the emotion e.g. 'sympathetic, aggressive, emotionally-charged, compassionate, anecdotal argument. Just note that argument types can be very broad and dependent on the idea being conveyed e.g. if the topic was about the environment, you could say 'environmentally-based argument' or if the topic was on issues facing society, you could say 'social argument' As a final resource to identify the argument type, I relied on some generic words that I could use in pretty much every case e.g. 'Systematic, methodical, balanced argument etc' Hope this helps!

[@royaalasadi2689]

tbh this helped me alot, after dealing with the struggle of year 12 and aiming to get those high marks, this video truly helped me with the understanding of alyasing arguments. but I do want to ask is there any tips in perering for an up coming sac based on alyalsing arguments?

[@JLTutoring]

Glad it was helpful! To prepare for the upcoming SAC, it is a good idea to make you are familiar with the basic structure of argument analysis (which you can find here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnbOaZKDrbKalcU&ab_channel=JLTutoring). So just make sure you know each part of the HOW-WHAT-WHY structure which is essentially what makes up most of your essay. Then I would also focus on your weaknesses. For me, that was reading time, so I would just read as many articles as possible and quickly brainstorm what I would include in each paragraph (but I would not write out the entire essay since it was the reading that I struggled with) Finally, I would memorize some key sentence stems that you can use in many essays, and this can help you save some time in your actual SAC (and you can find a series of sentence stems that I used here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIrQmmCXn6alb7s&ab_channel=JLTutoring)

[@royaalasadi2689]

@@JLTutoring bruhhh thank youu omg, I appreciate it soo much it helped even more thank you thank youu😫❤

[@isaac1050]

Hey Julian, I think I saw you inside a shopping centre today. 😅 I wasn't sure if that person was you, so I didn't say hi to avoid any embarassment. Keep up the good work.

[@JLTutoring]

Haha thanks, that’s so cool! Feel free to say hi if you do recognise me next time :) All the best

[@drenglish9480]

In the SAC it is required that students compare - it is part of the assessment. But not in the exam. Can you change that in the video? I would like my students to watch it, but not with that statement in it.

[@JLTutoring]

Hi, thank you for pickup. I cannot update the video unfortunately since it has already been published. Although not explicitly stated in the VCAA reports, I mention in the video that comparing is important (and basically essential) in order to do well on this task since it shows sophisticated understanding of the articles.