HSC English Extension 2 (NSW) study plan

Draft a 300-word concept statement naming your form (imaginative or critical), your intended audience and the idea you are testing

Annotate five potential source texts or artworks, recording for each what you will borrow formally and what you will resist

Build a research log template with columns for source, date, claim extracted, and how it changes your draft

Map a rough three-act or three-movement structure with word or section budgets that total your target length

Compose a 600-word opening or first section that establishes voice, register and point of view

Identify the conventions of your chosen form and list three you will follow and one you will deliberately disrupt

Write a 250-word commentary on how your chosen form shapes what you can and cannot say

Read one work in a contrasting form and note two techniques you could adapt

Draft the middle movement or central section, prioritising momentum over polish

Cut or merge at least two elements that are not earning their place in the structure

Test your draft against your concept statement and log any drift between intention and execution

Write a 150-word note on the single biggest structural risk in the draft and your fix

Complete a full rough draft from opening to resolution, even where sections are thin

Draft a 200-word skeleton of the Reflection Statement covering intention, process and form

List the three craft decisions you can most clearly evidence with draft extracts

Identify the gaps in your process documentation that the Reflection Statement will expose

Draft the full Reflection Statement to within ten percent of the word limit

Select and annotate four draft extracts that demonstrate revision, each with a dated before-and-after

Reconstruct a dated timeline of research, drafting and feedback for the process documentation

Verify every claim in the Reflection Statement against an artefact in your log

Revise the major work at sentence level for rhythm, image and precision across the whole draft

Interrogate your representation of context, checking that setting and voice are consistent and purposeful

Solicit structured feedback from one reader using three specific questions you have written

Act on feedback selectively, recording each accepted or rejected suggestion and the reason

Rewrite the Reflection Statement so that every paragraph links a decision to evidence

Trim the Reflection Statement to the exact word limit and read it aloud for register

Finalise the process documentation, removing duplication and confirming dates are consistent

Check that the major work and Reflection Statement use consistent terminology for form and intention

Proofread the major work in three passes: structure, paragraph, then line

Read the major work and Reflection Statement back to back and repair any mismatch in claim or emphasis

Format both documents to the required presentation standards and confirm word counts

Complete a final read-aloud of both documents and log any last corrections