Composing in imaginative, discursive and reflective modes, and reflecting on the choices made as a writer.
These are the statements the English Advanced syllabus makes about Module C: The Craft of Writing. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Composing a new text that extends or reworks a stimulus, with deliberate control of voice and form.
Writing that thinks aloud: a voice exploring an idea through digression and return, rather than arguing to a conclusion.
Reflecting on your own compositional choices, naming what you did and why, with the reason tied to the effect.
Deliberate control of register, syntax and imagery for a stated purpose and audience.
Using a supplied stimulus as a starting point without merely restating it: taking its idea into a new form.
Adjusting form and language to a specified context, and making that adjustment visible rather than assumed.
Revising for precision: cutting the sentence that explains what the imagery already said.
HSC English Advanced - Trial Paper Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Module C: The Craft of Writing are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones English Advanced uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Module C: The Craft of Writing is module 4 of 4 in English Advanced. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses English Advanced dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.