HSC English Studies (NSW) study guide
HSC English Studies (NSW) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
English Studies Stage 6 is a Board Developed 2-unit English course in New South Wales, designed for students who wish to refine their skills and knowledge in English and consolidate their literacy skills. It builds language, literacy and literature skills through responding to and composing a wide variety of oral, written and multimodal texts, including literary, digital and media texts, and it explores ideas, values, language forms, features and structures across personal, social, cultural, academic, community and workplace contexts. The HSC English Studies (NSW) study guide has 3 sections and about 1,101 words.
01Mandatory Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences
The Common Module asks you to explain how a text represents individual and collective human experiences, and how it invites responders to see the world differently. Understand these concepts: individual versus collective experience , paradox and inconsistency in human behaviour , anomalies , human emotions and qualities , the role of storytelling , and context (composer's world and the responder's).
379 words, about 2 min02Achieving through English: English in Education, Work and Community
This Year 11 mandatory module focuses on the functional, purposeful and contextual use of English beyond the classroom. You must understand: register (the formality level suited to audience and purpose), audience and purpose , text types and their conventions (cover letters, résumés, reports, emails, speeches, interviews), workplace and community communication , persuasive and informative language , Standard Australian English and code-switching , and digital literacy and multimodal texts .
366 words, about 2 min03Additional Elective Modules (2–4 modules, one may be school-designed)
Elective modules let you study a focused area of English - for example contemporary literature, genre study, the craft of writing, film, media and digital texts, or a school-designed module such as local stories or sport and identity. Whatever the elective, you must understand: the module's specific focus as stated in its description, the texts and their contexts , form and genre conventions , language and stylistic features , and how the elective's ideas connect to wider human experience .
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