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Responding to Texts (30%)

6 dot points, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

How do you select, embed and analyse textual evidence so it proves your interpretation?

Select and integrate relevant textual evidence to support and develop an interpretation.

How to choose, embed and analyse quotations and textual detail so evidence proves your reading rather than decorating it.

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How do writers and speakers use language features to position an audience to respond in particular ways?

Analyse how language features, conventions and structures position audiences to respond to texts and their ideas.

How to analyse the way language features and structures position an audience in SACE Stage 2 English, writing about effect rather than just spotting techniques.

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How do the stylistic features and conventions of a text shape its meaning and effect?

Analyse how stylistic features and text-type conventions create meaning and shape audience response.

How to analyse stylistic features and the conventions of different text types, and write about them as deliberate, meaning-making choices.

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How does the context a text is produced and received in shape the meanings we make from it?

Analyse the ways context shapes the production, meaning and reception of a text.

How to use context - social, cultural, historical and personal - to deepen analysis without sliding into a history lesson or generic background paragraph.

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Whose perspective does a text privilege, and how is that perspective constructed through representation?

Analyse the ways texts represent people, places, ideas and events, and the perspectives they privilege or silence.

How to analyse the perspectives a text constructs and the choices behind its representations of people, ideas and events.

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How do you structure an analytical response that argues a clear interpretation of a text?

Plan and write a coherent, well-structured analytical response that develops a sustained interpretation of a text.

How to plan, structure and sustain an analytical response - thesis, paragraph design and through-line - for the Responding to Texts assessment.

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