Proposal and Research
Defining the Major Work: concept, form, scope and the research that supports it.
- The Major Work Proposal
- Concept and Thesis
- Choice of Form
NSW English Extension 2 Stage 6 structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did English Extension 2” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Defining the Major Work: concept, form, scope and the research that supports it.
Generating, selecting and shaping material, and the reading that informs it.
Structural revision, editing and the discipline of cutting.
The reflection statement as an argument about your own work, and presenting the Major Work.
A English Extension 2 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–6 |
| analyse | Extended response | 8–10 |
| assess | Short answer | 2–4 |
| design | Short answer | 3–6 |
| develop | Short answer | 3–6 |
| develop | Extended response | 8–10 |
| diagnose | Short answer | 3–5 |
| edit | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–5 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| justify | Short answer | 3–5 |
| revise | Short answer | 3–5 |
English Extension 2 - Assessment Shape (no timed examination) — 50 marks, 120 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.