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Students  featured in the 2016 wordeXpress Young Writers Showcase share their top tips for success  in these short clips.  

Reflection statements from 2015 - 20189 provide exemplars for this critical element of the major work. 

 

A woman talking with students

Eman's Top Tip

Students talking around a table

Danielle's Top Tip

A woman talking with students

Christina's Top Tip

A woman talking with students

Daisy's Top Tip

Two girls seated at a table talking

Emily's Top Tip

A woman smiling

Charlotte's Top Tips

A man talking to two students

Patrick's Top Tip

HSC English Extension 2 Reflection Statements

2019: A beautiful little fool

2019: Conversations in the dreamscape

2019: Dear Reader;

2019: Dream again

2019: Flipping the bird

2019: How to make fetch happen

2019: Instrument

2019: On the authority of authors

2019: Perception and expression

2019: Production and r'production

2019: The divine invasions

2019: To make quiet things heard

2019: Weapons in these teeth

2018: A dangerous artist

2018: A Hool's hope

2018: A letter to the anonymous author

2018: Bobby Sands is doing it for me

2018: Caliphoria

2018: Composure

2018: "Don't quote me on that..."

2018: Down the Rabbit Hole of Mathematical Literature

2018: Forget.me

2018: ‘melaka’s voices’

2018: Mythrepresentation: Margaret Atwood and Revisionist Myth-Making

2018: Native Titles: a postcolonial evaluation of Indigenous Australian literature

2018: Pindar Drive: Our Unrequited Love for Ghosts

2018: The Director is Dead

2018: The Elusive Self: An Exploration of Humanity’s Manifold Nature

2018: The honeymoon suite

2018: The glass of fashion: Shakespearean tragedy in the scheme of things

2018: Wabi-Sabi: A Suite of Transient Moments

2017: A portrait

2017: Ab(h)ide

2017: Bones of a nation

2017: Death of a talesman

2017: Dent de Lion

2017: Dismantling the Great Wall

2017: En Passant

2017: Expulsion, equilibrium, elucidation

2017: Goorialla's journey

2017: Kami and Murakami

2017: The nexus between language and thought

2017: The sight of women talking

2017: Speaking when speechless

2017: Thaimoli

2017: The Wednesday Shift

2017: Where are we now?

2016: An elusive truth, the surrealist jolt

2016: Beneath the battlefield

2016: Cask wine in plastic cups

2016: He kills her in her own humour

2016: Lights, Camera, Fracture

2016: Nothing but time

2016: Palette of voices

2016: Pandora's pandemonium; Creation, Earth and Legacy

2016: Qualia

2016: She'll be right

2016: Stories of home

2016: The manifesto of Magdalena Carmen

2016: The weight of paper

2016: These memories we carry

2016: This system of subdued agony

2015: A timely death: exploring the tension of absolutes and relativity in literature

2015: At the doors of the house of bread

2015: Dancing with the shadows

2015: Her

2015: Historical perspectives on the female composer

2015: In the light of that dawn

2015: Je ne comprends pas: 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy'

2015: Lights, passing

2015: On a wing and a prayer

2015: Part of a day

2015: Postmodern gothic cinema: a critical analysis

2015: The caretaker

2015: The golden bough

2015: The Imperial and Colonial conquest of land and women alike

2015: The last Welsh winter

2015: The nature of poetic form: celebrative elegy

2015: To the darkroom: photography and To the Lighthouse

2015: Whatever season reigns...

2014: A long time coming

2014: A multitude of methods to evade the truth

2014: Addiction-ary

2014: Commentary on a Nymphette

2014: The hanged man

2014: In Russia, you must not wake anybody

2014: Just what is it that make today's artworks so different, so appealing?

2014: Lungs

2014: Pamphlets and purple passages

2014: Prufrock Cafe

2014: The road to Molong

2014: Science in a smoke-filled room

2014: Singularity

2014: Translator, traitor

2013: A man for our season

2013: A slice without

2013: Blah, blah black sheep..?

2013: Cloud

2013: Constructing the experience of horror

2013: The craft of translation

2013: esse/sein/est

2013: The great glass elevator

2013: Inhale

2013: Liblotto

2013: On absent voices

2013: Puberty Blues

2013: Pushkin essay

2013: Reading and righting whiteness

2013: Revere

2013: Sponge cake for vultures

2013: Suburban Badlands: Deconstructing Australian Identity on the Big Screen

2013: The teachings

2013: Terra Divis'us

2013: Voices from the cusp

2013: Who's the delivery man?

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