Unit 3: Textual Connections
9 dot points across 2 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.
Topic 1: Conversations about concepts in texts (IA1)
A focused answer to the QCE English Unit 3 dot point on aesthetic features and stylistic devices. The QCAA distinction between the two terms, a working list of devices you can name precisely, and how to make every device serve an argument about meaning in IA1 extended writing for a public audience.
A focused answer to the QCE English Unit 3 dot point on the analytical extended response. The QCAA analytical-conversational genre conventions for IA1, how to build an analytical thesis around a critical perspective, how to sequence close reading to develop the thesis, and how to avoid the technique-spotting trap.
A focused answer to the QCE English Unit 3 dot point on critical perspectives. The five lenses QCAA most commonly recognises (feminist, postcolonial, Marxist, ecocritical, reader-response), what each looks for, and how to apply a critical perspective as an analytical tool in IA2 without forcing theory onto the text.
A focused answer to the QCE English Unit 3 dot point on what underpins texts. The QCAA four (assumptions, attitudes, values, beliefs), how each one operates, how to surface them through textual evidence, and how to use them in IA1 extended writing for a public audience and IA2 persuasive spoken responses.
A focused answer to the QCE English Unit 3 dot point on genre, mode and medium. The QCAA distinction between the three terms, common genre conventions for persuasive and analytical writing, and how to use mode-appropriate features in IA1.
A focused answer to the QCE English Unit 3 dot point on perspective. What a perspective is in QCAA's sense (not opinion, not bias, but a constructed standpoint), the textual moves that build it, and how to write about perspective in IA1 extended writing for a public audience and IA2 persuasive spoken responses.
A focused answer to the QCE English Unit 3 dot point on representation. The QCAA distinction between representation and reflection, the four objects representation acts on (concepts, identities, times and places), and how to write about representation in IA1 and IA2.
A focused answer to the QCE English Unit 3 dot point on the writer-text-audience relationship. The five-term frame QCAA uses (writer, text, audience, purpose, context), how each shapes meaning, and how to deploy the frame in IA1 extended writing for a public audience and IA2 spoken persuasive responses.