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English paper one composition

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  • #52
    blue-army
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭blue-army


    BarryDoodles wrote: »
    ! i am not saying nick someone else's short story but learn your own a1 standard story learn all the structures, all the link sentences. When it comes to predictable questions such as comparative or poetry and your teacher throws you a sample essay that will get you an 'a' learn that..folly otherwise!
    What kind of stories are you and others learning off so?
    Give me an idea.....we've done very little on paper 1.


  • #53
    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    My point was that English shouldn't be about learning off essays and that nowhere is it officially stated that the LC is a memory test.

    Can you get more points by learning off essays etc. rather than using your brain? Perhaps. Does that make it right? From an education, moral and suitibility for university standpoint, an overwhelming NO.

    Oh and the Institute is the main feeder school for UCD and Trinity because no one who doesn't want to go to college goes to the institute, and the majority are going for high points courses in UCD and Trinity.


  • #54
    tasha1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭tasha1


    According To My English Teacher 'There's Nothing Wrong With A Bit Of Plagarism'


  • #55
    life_is_music
    Closed Accounts Posts: 259 ✭✭life_is_music


    I'm learning off my teachers sample Mahon essay......

    Does the short story have to be written in the form:

    He opened the door of his car.

    or can it be:

    I opened the door of my car


  • #56
    Cokehead Mother
    Closed Accounts Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Cokehead Mother


    life_is_music wrote: »

    Does the short story have to be written in the form:

    He opened the door of his car.

    or can it be:

    I opened the door of my car

    Obviously the first one. Examiner have this irrational hatred of first-person narrative. :)


  • #57
    Peleus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Peleus


    you can write first person in the personal essay. like if you describe an event to back up a point you make. The essay has to be more reflection than narration. definately don't write like:

    I woke up and it was a lovely day. I got dressed and walk down the stairs and out the door. I met up with my friend John and then asked him how he was. "Good," he said....

    Those first person short story type essays can be really boring and predictable. If you're writing a short story just do a plan; a few charachters (not very complex ones), a basic plot (not predictable, but simple and realistic, and have a point to the short story) and alot of descriptive writing. easier said than done tho.


  • #58
    BarryDoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭BarryDoodles


    blue-army wrote: »
    What kind of stories are you and others learning off so?
    Give me an idea.....we've done very little on paper 1.

    no please? o.k how about ''its a points race'' :p


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