Is the approach to writing different from VCE?
Karen: Students at VCE have often been given a structure (or template) for their writing by their teacher. To a certain extent we attempt to provide such templates, but ideally we are looking for more autonomy. We want to see evidence that you’re doing more than just following instructions; you need to show that you’ve done the reading carefully enough to have understood it, and that you’ve spent some time thinking about it independently. So the main transition is from doing what one is told to do, to using one’s own skills and judgement to produce something worthwhile.
