UTS Subject Review: 70717 Evidence and Criminal Procedure

I did Evidence and Criminal Procedure (70717) this Autumn 2009 semester together with Family Law and Corporate Law.

• Credit Points: 6
• UTS Handbook: Description
• UTS Evidence and Criminal Procedure Autumn 2009 -  Subject Outline

Past HSC and Practice Questions for Advanced Module A: Texts in Time – Frankenstein and Blade Runner

This English Advanced Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Contexts – Elective 2: Texts in Time – Frankenstein and Blade Runner is a bit to find questions to practice on, because pre-2009, the Elective was “Into the Wild” and the texts were Brave New World and Blade Runner.

As such, I’ve still put the past HSC questions below, but I’ve modified them slightly to say “Frankenstein” and “Texts in Time” instead. Substantively, the HSC questions may be different now in that they won’t focus on humanity and nature so much (which was what “Into the Wild” was about). Instead they may focus more on texts and contexts.

The practice questions used by high schools etc are all from 2009 though and have not been modified by me.

So how should you use these questions?

Past HSC and Practice Questions for Advanced Module B: Speeches

Here are the past HSC questions that have been used for the English Advanced Module B: Critical Study of Texts – Speeches, as well as some practice questions used by high schools etc.

So how should you use these questions?

1. Write a essay according to one of these questions – if you have not already done an essay as part of a school assessment.
2. If you have already written as essay – see if you can adapt it to all the questions below.
   1. To do this – write an introduction/thesis specific to the question and then outline how your body paragraphs would be structured (if any differently).
   2. At the end of this exercise, you should have come up with say 3 alternative thesis that you can have ready in your mind and ready to adapt to whatever question you spring on you in the HSC!

Easy Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary – Part 1

Here are some easy ways that you can improve your vocabulary, without any “formal” learning. Like a lot of things, vocabulary isn’t about learning so much as “picking up” words through your everyday life.

In Part 1 of this, we’ll cover:

1. Books
2. Television
3. Shift+ F7

An Australian History for Us All by Noel Pearson

Noel Pearson

Another old speech from the pre-2009 syllabus for for Module B: Critical Study of Texts – Speeches.

There are actually a lot of notes already on Bored of Studies on this speech.

One of my least favourite speeches here. It’s pretty long, very academic (making it hard to teach) in parts and utilises a lot of long quotations, rather than Pearson’s own rhetoric.

However, it’s kind of interesting for me (not for highschool students I suspect) as I’m a Law/Arts student, because this isn’t the first time I’ve read encountered these issues (both legal and historical).

Anyway, here are some things to consider:

1. This speech deals with issues about Indigenous Australians. How it is different to Faith Bandler’s speech?
2. This speech is just 3 years after Keating’s speech. How does it relate to that speech and the Australian identity?
   
3. Why does this speech include some many quotations?