Learn: Transformation (continued)
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Transformation (continued)
You will hear the word transformation quite a bit in this course.
Here’s the reason: focusing on a character’s transformation in a text when planning your response to an essay question can help you identify and organize the content of your essay.
Examining the process of a person’s transformation is a key skill that will benefit you when it comes time to write essays, particularly on the diploma exam.
- You will identify characters who transform during a story or people in your own life who have experienced transformation.
- You will determine what caused the transformation and how the individuals are different before and after they transform.
- You will learn how to use the concept of transformation to help you write certain types of essays.
Here’s the reason: focusing on a character’s transformation in a text when planning your response to an essay question can help you identify and organize the content of your essay.
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The key to an organized essay is to determine how the essay topic relates to transformation.
Take a look at this image (click to enlarge). It shows a picture of a
mountain and the four stages of a character’s transformation: before
transformation, cause of transformation, during transformation, and
after transformation. If you can remember these four stages, you can
use them to organize an essay, as long as you can relate the character’s
transformation to the essay question. You may want to print this image and use it throughout the course.
Click here to view Delaney’s Transformation Tutorial.
Now, your tutor, Delaney, will take you through an example of a previous diploma exam essay question and how character transformation might be used to answer it.
Click here to view Delaney’s Transformation Tutorial.
Now, your tutor, Delaney, will take you through an example of a previous diploma exam essay question and how character transformation might be used to answer it.
