VCE English - 1997 is an exciting and versatile text for Year 12 students containing valuable advice on all three CATs. It offers clear instructions, a wide range of accessible examples, work in progress and final drafts, stimulating exercises and complete CATs. The text now includes a new and greatly expanded selection of essays on fifteen VCE texts, as well as exercises and CAT topics, prepared by practising teachers of VCE. CAT 1 - Presentation of an issue. Part A covers: definition of an issue; advice on selection and sourcing of media texts; identification of media attitudes; extensive language analysis; interesting ways of structuring final responses. Part B covers: the range of options available; preparation and writing up advice about quotations, footnoting and bibliography. CAT 2 - The writing folio. This covers: audience and purpose; suggestions of how to raise interest levels; sources for ideas. CAT 3 - Text response. Offers an outline of examination requirements, a collection of analytical essays on the prescribed texts and sample answers.