Defining the Major Work: concept, form, scope and the research that supports it.
These are the statements the English Extension 2 syllabus makes about Proposal and Research. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
A proposal that states the concept, the form and the intended effect, and shows the work is achievable in the time available.
The idea the work is exploring, stated precisely enough that every choice can be tested against it.
Selecting a form — short story, suite of poems, critical essay, script — because it suits the concept, not because it is familiar.
Sizing a project so that it can be finished and refined, and recognising the plan that has to be cut.
Researching form, context and subject matter, and knowing which research is feeding the work and which is postponing it.
Identifying the writers and texts shaping the work, and being able to say what has been taken from each.
Who the work is for, and what the reader is meant to feel or understand by the end.
Justifying the project's value as an act of composition rather than as a topic of interest.
Planning major-work stages against the assessment calendar, and building in time for revision rather than only for production.
English Extension 2 - Assessment Shape (no timed examination) is 50 marks in 120 minutes. Questions on Proposal and Research are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones English Extension 2 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Proposal and Research opens the English Extension 2 course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses English Extension 2 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.