Structural revision, editing and the discipline of cutting.
These are the statements the English Extension 2 syllabus makes about Drafting and Refining. 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.
Moving from first draft to final through structural revision before line editing.
Reordering, expanding and cutting whole sections, and diagnosing a structural problem rather than rewriting sentences around it.
Line editing for rhythm, verb choice and compression, once the structure is settled.
Using a reader's response as evidence about the work's effect, and deciding which feedback to act on.
Catching the drift in voice and tense that appears across a long draft.
The final pass: spelling, punctuation, formatting and the details that signal care.
English Extension 2 - Assessment Shape (no timed examination) is 50 marks in 120 minutes. Questions on Drafting and Refining 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.
Drafting and Refining is module 3 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.