How to ACE your Argument Analysis Essay (VCE English)

How to write a perfect argument analysis essay for VCE English? Here is an argument analysis structure that I used that help me achieve a raw 50 and a Premier's award in VCE English - which I hope you can find some key takeaways and replicate the structure and the results in your own writing!

*Note: I meant to say that argument analysis has the lowest % of high-scoring students (8-10) because of its difficult and unpredictable nature.

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Helpful Links
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What can you memorise for argument analysis + VOCAB BANK for argument type, audience etc:

To learn the HOW-WHAT-WHY structure in more detail (for Text Response):

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Timestamps
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Why so hard: 0:00
Intro: 0:41
Need Paragraphs?: 1:07
Overall Structure: 2:03
Topic Sentence: 2:31
Evidence + Explanation: 3:45
Repeat: 8:10
Image: 8:45
Link: 10:06
Conclusion: 10:38
Summary: 11:03

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About Me
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My name is Julian I graduated with a 99.95 ATAR (top 0.05% of the state) in Melbourne, Australia. The aim of this channel is to explain concepts and study tips in short, succinct videos and offer a student perspective on the important things to know. Enjoy!

Feel free to reach out about anything via my contact information

[teemomain]

Ironically, English is easily the hardest VCE subject. No calculations involved. No formulas to memorise. Just pure abstractness.

[JLTutoring]

Hey everyone! Bit of a later upload today, took longer to edit this one than expected :) Hopefully after watching this, you'll do great on your argument analysis SAC or exam.

And just a disclaimer for those politically inclined ;)
- this video is not designed to represent my views on this topic - this was simply chosen because I had a sample essay for this article

[previouslykwayza]

It's really funny how I was watching you video and then I found out I'm from your old school. I thought, "Imagine if we had the same English teacher."

The video was very helpful, btw!

[tiniecee]

wow! your videos are amazing, i wish i found them sooner !! they're so detailed, and unlike any other vce exam tips videos out there!! thanks so much!

[ryzenthreadripper]

Night before my english exam finna kill this shit (I'm getting a 20 study score)

[lishikaperera]

Thank you this was really well made and made such a difference to my learning. I really appreciated that you explained how to do this essay whilst using an example, it gave me a lot more clarity. Keep it up!

[pond]

Such a helpful video! Insanely generous to be doing this for free, keep it up!

[aries-o]

Watching this at 2:01 AM trying to finish my English Holiday HW due today. Pray for me y'all <3 :')

[K_PixeLz]

Dude thank you SO MUCH!! My argument analysis is alright to an extent, but it's kinda slopy.
This really helps me improve, thanks man!

[lichengxi]

Amazing video! Is it also works for EAL students though?

[Tom-ecol]

1:16 AM the night before my AA SAC...
Should be easy

[aleenafareed]

Hey Julian this is an amazing viedo and honestly helps a lot but I was just wondering how were you able to finish this so quickly in the 1 hour time span of the three hour exam?

[yaz]

in the chance there isn't an image included, which i don't think will happen, what would i use as my last sentence for the introduction

[Noah-dlrv]

Would you recommend having a paragraph dedicated to the likes of images, titles, etc?

[santibagets]

can you make a video discussing analyzing literary devices and tone in argument anlysis

[saffypappy]

Love the vid! How would you go on about finding the contention in an article??

[DanielLiang-qy]

Hey Julian thanks for putting this out but I was just wondering:
1. When you categorise your arguments as logical, sympathetic, condemning etc..., isn't that sort of redundant since I guess logic isn't really a category of argument? Like shouldn't a logical progression of thought be a prerequisite to any argument? So what does highlighting it's presence actually do? Also shouldn't evoking emotions like sympathy and condemnation be as a result of author positioning? I feel including it in the topic sentence also doesn't really do anything. I know you said it's for VCAA but do you have any idea what their reasoning behind this is?
2. Do you have any tips on how to structure your progression of argument? Because right now I feel my writing is quite disjointed, and it's not a very flowing piece in the way that each topic sentence is not a natural continuation of the previous?
Would appreciate a reply :)

[themoz]

Great video. Do you think using techniques for examples is required? E.g. emotional appeals, anecdotes, statistics, etc.

[tsukineko]

helpful video!! Do you also have a video on how to do an argument analysis with two texts + an image? (e.g. an article, a response letter with a visual). I find it hard to section my ideas into the body paragraphs. Thanks :)

[Iovedogs]

I found a lot of techniques for my first argument...how do i know which one to use in my body paragraph? My teacher says i incorporate too many tecniques in my essay, hence it gets really confusing. Let me know...