You’ve probably heard a lot of conflicting advice about picking good related texts for HSC English.
“不要选择受欢迎的东西”，“不要选择歌曲歌词或迪士尼电影”，“您实际上不需要阅读相关文本……”
一段时间后，它可能会变得非常混乱。
那么，您如何选择HSC English的相关文本？
In this video, we’ll walk you through step-by-step how to find a Band 6 worthy HSC English related text!
让我们跳入吧！
What is a Related Text?
步骤1：找到主题主题
Step 2: Choose a Text Type for Your Related Texts
步骤3：了解相关文本的文学价值
The Formula in Reverse
What is a Related Text?
Before we get started with actually choosing our related texts for HSC English, we need a little bit of background information on just what a related text should be. An easy way to think of this is actually in the wordrelated。
如果有人与你,他们可能分享a few of your features – maybe your uncle has the same nose, or your cousin’s gap-toothed grin matches yours. But even though there are some similarities, they’re your relative, not your twin, so there are going to be some major differences too.
这意味着相关文本本质上应该像您规定的文本的亲戚一样 - 在某些方面相似，但并非完全相同。
考虑到这一点，让我们开始使用我们的三步指南，以找到一些很棒的相关文本！
步骤1：找到主题主题
The first thing you need to consider when choosing a related text for HSC English is how it suits the topic! As mentioned above, you want to look for some similarities to the prescribed text – those are going to be in the themes.
主题定义为：
“在艺术或文学中浮现或遍及文学的想法。”
So basically it’s akey idea in a text.There’s usually a whole bunch of themes in any given text, with some being more important (major themes) and others being less so (minor themes). Thesethemes are what you’re going to end up analysing when you write your essays!
找到任何学习主题的主题的最佳场所实际上是在规定的文本中。Some can be obvious, for example a romance novel will have relationships as one of it’s key themes. It’s not always that easy though, so lets look at just how to identify themes in prescribed texts.
随着时间的流逝
第一种方法真的很擅长识别任何文本的主要主题，而第二种方法可以更轻松地掌握主要想法和次要想法！Let’s check them out.
Method 1: Moral of the Story
What it does:gives you one or two themes that are really strong and central to the text.
因为主题就像文本中的潜在信息，所以很容易将它们视为故事的道德。这意味着它们是文本试图教给我们的重要价值。
By identifying the moral(s) of a text we’re essentially identifying the key themes as well, making it really easy to figure out what a topic’s major themes are.
Let’s take a look at an example – we’ll use the prescribed text比利·埃利奥特（Billy Elliot）from the Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences.
这部电影讲述了11岁的比利（Billy）的故事，他是一位有抱负的芭蕾舞舞者，他在1980年代英格兰在矿工罢工期间处理了男舞者的负面刻板印象。比利必须学会在追求他的热情的同时，在他的父亲和兄弟的最初反对，社会期望和偏见的偏见。他是encouraged by his ballet teacher and gay best friend to follow his dream of being a ballet dancer, ultimately auditioning successfully for the Royal Ballet School and becoming a professional ballet dancer.
即使从这个简短的概述中，我们也可以汲取故事的两个大道德。
1.Prejudice can be overcome;and
2.家庭关系很难导航。
这些是为了适合这个话题的扩展主题（请参阅两者如何与人类经验的观念相关），但简单地说，它们可以被视为主题的主题偏见andrelationships。
最好将此方法应用于几个不同的规定文本，否则您根本没有足够的主题可供以后使用。
行动点：
Think about the last prescribed text you studied – what were the 2 biggest morals in the story?
Identify them and turn them into an extended theme like the ones above for the topic that your prescribed text was for!
方法2：一个单词描述
What it does:为您提供很多主题，尽管并非所有主题都是文本的核心。
This method isn’t as precise as the first, but it is very good at helping you identify a whole range of themes quickly! This gives you lots of idea to work with, which in turn often leads to finding interesting or uncommon themes to explore.
The easiest way to come up with themes using this method is to ask yourself questions about the text and answer with one or two words.
We’ll use Billy Elliot as an example again.
Q:What is Billy Elliot about?
A:破碎的传统。
Q:What difficulties does Billy face?
A:Gender stereotypes, prejudice, family relationships.
Q:How does Billy keep going in the hardest times?
A:Taking risks, determination, courage.
即使从这三个问题来看，我们也可以使用许多不同的想法。
破碎的传统
Gender stereotypes
Family relationships
Determination
目前它们非常基本，所以we have to expand them to suit the topic properly。他们可能成为：
- 破碎的传统and gender stereotypes are a necessary part of the human experience
- Maintaining family relationships is a universal conflict in human experience
- Determination can lead to growth in one’s human experience
通过这种方法，您从本质上给了自己一堆可以与之合作的想法get to choose which ones you like best later on。另外，如果您发现需要更多主题，那只是提出更多问题的问题！
行动点：
Like last time, think of a prescribed text you recently studied – nowask yourself these 3 questions and give single word answers;
What is it about?
What is most important to the main character?
是什么激励主角？
Expand your single words into themesto suit the topic and there you have it!
哪个更好？
老实说，一起使用这两种方法是最好的方法。
即使似乎有更多的工作，使用它们都可以识别可能的主要和小主题从长远来看，这将非常重要。
Plus, it means you’ll know exactly which themes are central to the story (those from method 1), so you can focus more on those.
因此，现在我们知道了这个主题的关键主题，我们下一步该怎么办？
创建主题列表
From the themes we gathered using the methods above,创建与您正在研究的主题有关的所有主题的列表。
Keep this on hand for the rest of the process, as you’ll continue to refer back to it to make sure that the texts you’re looking at suit the Common Module.
如果您查看列表，并且已经知道一些具有类似主题的文本，那就太好了！这意味着您将以不同的方式使用该方法的接下来两个步骤 - 我们将介绍一下。
行动点：
使用您收集的主题jot down a quick list of themes and any others that come to mind!
您可以稍后将其用于本文和您自己的研究。
Step 2: Choose a Text Type for Your Related Texts
One of the biggest places students let themselves down when it comes to choosing a related text for HSC English is when they don’t consider text types. It may seem unimportant, but making sure that you consider the type of text you choose just as much as you consider it’s context is key to selecting a great related text.
What texts types are there to choose from?
电影
小说
短篇故事
Poem
玩
Song (only if you have a musical background)
Speech
此列表是ordered by popularity，但这并不意味着您应该仅仅因为常见而避免使用前几种类型。
小说，电影，短篇小说和诗歌都可以很好地分析so long as they’re given the right consideration. Plays are usually a little trickier to analyse because of their format (and people don’t like reading them), as are speeches, and songs should only be used if you have a musical background (more on this later).
A first piece of advice: don’t choose a movie just because it’s ‘easy’!
这并不是说完全不要使用电影！实际上，我在11年级和12年的英语中使用了大多数相关文本的电影，并且进展顺利 - 但这仅仅是因为我首先考虑了文本类型。但是那到底是什么意思？
选择文本类型时，有两个问题要问自己：
它是与规定文本一样的文本类型吗？
Can you write about the text type?
要理解为什么这些问题很重要，让我们仔细看看它们。
Question 1: Is it the same as the prescribed text?
这个非常简单 -无论您的规定文本是什么类型，都不要选择相同类型的相关文本。
因此，如果您的规定文字是小说，请选择电影，诗或其他东西。同样，如果您在课堂上学习戏剧，请不要为您的规定文字选择其他戏剧。
It may seem obvious now but a lot of students forget to take this into consideration when choosing their related texts and end up with two of the same type.
Though this isn’t necessarily the end of the world, it’s much better to vary it because it显示您可以分析不同文本类型的标记。另外，这意味着您可以查看不同类型的技术以及它们如何用于显示相同主题的方式。
Also尝试混合主题/模块之间的相关文本类型。If you’re using a film for Module A, go for a poem in Module B. It’ll help improve the range of types you’re comfortable writing about!
行动点：
Think about the last three prescribed texts you studied in class – what text types were they?
将类型写在一张纸上以供以后
Question 2: Can you write about the text type?
Now I know what you’re thinking – “What do you mean can I write about it? I’m in my final years of high school, obviously I can!” – but hear me out.
写关于文本类型的文字并不像提及您的相关文本是您介绍中的一首诗那样简单。What it’s actually about is recognising and analysing the type-specific techniques within the text.
什么是类型的技术？
这些是y的技术您只能在某些文本类型中找到或以非常特定的方式用于某些类型。
For example camera angles, wide shots, costuming and lighting are techniques you’ll only find in film, whereas soliloquys, stage directions and asides are typically specific to plays.
Basically type-specific techniques are what one text type has that none of the others do – it’s what makes it the type that it is.
警告使用歌曲：
在选择歌曲时，您必须特别注意，就像许多学生这样做一样，最终获得了差的标记。如果您为相关文本选择一首歌，您have to have a musical background.这是纯粹的,因为文本包括音乐和therefore you have to analyse the music in order to do well. Too many students only analyse the lyrics and end up being disappointed in their marks, so unless you’re a music whiz as well, avoid using songs!
So why is all this important?
因为对于您选择的任何文本类型，您都必须确保专注于特定类型的技术, so choose on that you know about. If you really enjoy writing about the different techniques in novels, go for it! If you know your analysis skills are stronger in the film department try that instead. Play to your strengths where you can and you’ll have a better essay in the end.
行动点：
Copy down the list of text types from before and rank them from 1 to 7, with 1 being the type you’re most comfortable writing, 7 the one you don’t want to touch with a six foot stick.
您将需要一分钟的时间，所以现在就可以！
Making the Choice
现在您已经问自己，您的规定文本是什么类型，以及您是否可以写有关您的想法的类型，是时候固定文本类型了。
您可能已经知道仅考虑一下要使用的是什么，但是如果不是最简单的方法，那就是知道您的选择。
Follow these steps to pick your text type:
- List all the text types
- Immediately cross off whatever type your prescribed text is
- 如果您没有音乐背景，也可以划分“歌曲”类别
- Then number your top 3 of text types you’d like to write about – you can use your numbered list of text types from earlier to figure this out.
- 从那里，选择您的前三名中的一个，您就可以出发了！
The reason you don’t always necessarily want to go with your number 1 text type is purely because otherwise you’ll probably end up using the same type every time. Remember to mix it up a little!
行动点：
使用您过去的规定文本列表和文本类型首选项，为您写下的每个规定文本创建一个类似于上面的列表
This way you know exactly how the process works for when you need to choose a related text next time.
步骤3：了解相关文本的文学价值
当我提到文学价值时，我从学生那里得到的反应总是相同的。“文学什么？”。在开始之前，让我们清除我们实际谈论的内容。
Definition:
Literary merit is thequality shared by all works of fiction that are considered to have aesthetic value。
The concept of “literary merit” has been criticised as being necessarily subjective, since personal taste determines aesthetic value, and has been derided as a “relic of a scholarly elite”.
What that means:
文学功绩是一种在被视为“正确”和有意义的价值的文本中找到的质量。
Many people think this is baloney, because whoever decides what does or doesn’t have literary merit is obviously going to be biased in some ways.
It’s a little tricky to understand, but I used to think about literary merit as being the kind of thing Jane Austen novels and Alfred Hitchcock films have.
通常，具有文学价值的文本年龄较大，并且经受了时间的考验。
您知道您的老师有时会如何看待他们的眼神并谈论“经典”吗？那些具有文学价值。
You’re probably wondering why this matters, and I’ll be honest with you – only because the markers think it does.
The point is that a lot of the people who are going to be marking your essays think that literary merit is the bees knees, so you’re going to want to choose a text that does have literary merit.
“But wait,” I hear you say, “Does that mean I have to choose some boring old people book?”
一点也不！如果您知道在哪里看，那么选择具有文学价值的文字实际上很容易，对您来说幸运的是，我有一个备忘单！
文学功绩作弊
The thing you need to know about literary merit is that it’s what a lot for critics use to judge plays, poems, short stories, films and novels.
That means that the texts that the critics think are amazing are probably going to be the kind that your markers think are awesome too.
Obviously, this means the best place to find possible related texts is by looking at what has won the big awards!
电影
List of all the films that have won theOscar for Best Picture
所有赢得奥斯卡的电影的清单Best Original Screenplay
If you’re more into independent and foreign film you can also try the戛纳电影节大奖获得者。
小说
You can usually cheat with this and just google ‘best novels’ or ‘top 100 fiction books’
结帐也是一个好主意Time Magazine’s list of All Time Top 100 Novels
过去的接收者Man Booker Prize如果你感到勇敢
Short Stories
It can be harder to figure out which of these have literary merit, but checking out the winners of theFrank Conner International Short Story Award或任何其他类似奖项
If in doubt, Tim Winton’sThe Turning是许多英语老师喜欢看相关文本的大量短篇小说。
Poems
These are a little trickier too but you can try this list ofGriffin Poetry Prize获奖者，或这个top 30 list of poems
You can also google something like ‘best poets of all time’ and cheat a little.
If it’s written by T.S. Elliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, John Milton, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Browning or Alfred Tennyson, you can’t go wrong – except for the fact that some of them are being studied in Extension 1 English (make sure to check!).
玩s
莎士比亚。如果您真的，真的，真的不想做莎士比亚，您可以尝试这样的事情list of the best plays in the last 100 years, but I mean… Shakespeare is right there
Markers are also super impressed with Australian playwrights – Louis Nowra, Patrick White (one of Elizabeth’s favourite!), Joanna Murray-Smith, Nick Enright, Dorothy Hewett and Ray Sewell are all Australian literary monoliths!
或者您可以作弊并参考此列表最好的澳大利亚剧作家。
现在，这只是浏览这些列表并查看您是否可以挑选自己喜欢的任何文本的情况！
Use the text type you chose in Step 2 to figure out what kind of text you’re looking for and your list of themes from Step 1 to figure out which of the texts you find will actually work.
当然，您可能找不到这些列表中想要的文本，但这没关系！它们确实是要让您了解文学价值的外观，因此，如果您挑选艰难的副本，您可以立即对自己说：“这可能不会出现在其中一个列表中。也许我需要选择其他相关文本。”
行动点：
From the text types you chose in step 2 and the themes you jotted down in step one choose a list and look through it to find a related text for ONE of the three past prescribed texts you’ve been working with.
The Formula in Reverse
While the formula as a straightforward process is awesome and can help you discover some amazing related texts for HSC English, it’s not for everyone.
So, for those of you who prefer to work with what they know or who already have a text in mind, simply use the formula in reverse!
步骤1：主题
相关的主题是否匹配您的规定文本？照常执行步骤1，然后在潜在的相关文本上使用相同的方法来查找其主题。它们相似吗？
如果他们继续前进，那么如果没有尝试找到更适合该主题主题的文本。
Step 2: Text Type
This one is easy. Ask yourself these two questions very similar to the ones in the regular steps, just do it with your potential related text in mind.
Is your prescribed text the same type as your related?
您是否愿意写有关此相关文本的类型？
If you answered yes to both of them you’re good to go! If not re-evaluate your text type choice to try to find a better one.
Step 3: Literary Merit
这个步骤确实取决于您。首先检查您选择的文字是否赢得了任何奖品（希望没有任何奖项金莓奖不过），如果它有滚动。如果不在第三步中查看具有文学价值的文字列表，然后问自己“我的相关文本可以在此列表中吗？像这些文本吗？”。如果答案是肯定的，那么您可以选择一个新的。
行动点：
Have a bit of fun this time!抓住您最喜欢的书或电影，看看您目前用英语学习的主题的相关文本将是多么棒或la脚。
因此，您拥有它 - 选择一个相关文本的公式！
显然，结果将根据您的个人喜好，您可能会或可能尚未想到的文本，您正在学习的主题等方面有所不同。
The point is really to give you a framework that will help you at least narrow it down and give you some criteria to make finding a strong related text a little easier.
要记住的主要事情是主题，类型和文学优点。If you can get these down pat and always take them into consideration when choosing your related texts, you’ll have an awesome outcome every time.
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麦迪逊·利奇（Maddison Leach）completed her HSC in 2014, achieving an ATAR of 98.00 and Band 6 in all her subjects. Having tutored privately for two years before joining Art of Smart, she enjoys helping students through the academic and other aspects of school life, even though it sometimes makes her feel old. Maddison has had a passion for writing since her early teens, having had several short stories published before joining the world of blogging. She’s currently studying a Bachelor of Design at the University of Technology Sydney and spends most of her time trying not to get caught sketching people on trains.
