Perfect your Language Analysis Skills
(ISBN 978-0-9924942-8-5)
Years 9 – 10.
- Online Program: A digital copy of the workbook: Become an Expert
- (Green) Online Exercise Program: complete the exercises and follow our “responses” to talk the talk and learn the lingo.
Chapter 1 focuses on persuasive and reasoning techniques such as:
- the author’s views and credentials, their credibility and degree of bias
- the author’s evidence and reasoning tactics
- the author’s appeals
- the author’s choice of words and their implications
- an author’s tone and style.
Chapter 2 introduces students to a range of media texts and their persuasive features: editorial and opinion pieces (online and print-based); letters to the editor and Your Say comments; cartoons; visual texts, speeches, TV news and radio interviews.
Chapter 3 provides an essay plan and paragraph maps to help students structure their essays. Students will apply the analytical terms they have learnt through the workbook and focus on the main persuasive features as covered in Chapters 1 and 2.
For an overview, please see the Slideshow:Become an Expert