Generating, selecting and shaping material, and the reading that informs it.
These are the statements the English Extension 2 syllabus makes about Creative Process. 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.
How research becomes material, and how material becomes form without being reported.
Exercises, notebook practice and deliberate drafting, and the difference between waiting for inspiration and producing material to select from.
Judging which material serves the concept, and cutting the passages that are good but belong to another work.
Choosing a voice and sustaining it, including the point of view that makes the concept visible.
Ordering material so that the work does something to the reader rather than merely covering its subject.
Images that carry the concept, and the difference between decoration and a figure that does structural work.
Reading as a writer: identifying the technique in a model text and testing whether it transfers.
Recording decisions as they are made, because the reflection statement cannot be reconstructed afterwards.
Using form, length and time limits as compositional constraints that sharpen rather than suppress the work.
English Extension 2 - Assessment Shape (no timed examination) is 50 marks in 120 minutes. Questions on Creative Process 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 Extension 2 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.
Creative Process is module 2 of 4 in English Extension 2. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses English Extension 2 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.