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Unit 3: Responding to and Creating Texts in Contexts
Module overview →How does context shape the way a text is produced and received?
Analyse how context, purpose and audience shape the language choices, structure and meaning of a text
How do you compare texts that treat a shared subject across different genres, modes and contexts?
Compare how texts within and across genres, modes and contexts represent shared themes, issues and ideas
How do you create a text that suits a chosen context, purpose and audience?
Create a sustained text that uses generic conventions and stylistic choices to suit a chosen context, purpose and audience
How do genre conventions and structure carry meaning?
Analyse how generic conventions and text structures are used, adapted or subverted to make meaning
How do texts carry and invite particular ideas, attitudes and values?
Analyse the ideas, attitudes and values a text conveys and how it invites a reader to accept or question them
How does reading produce meaning, and why do readers read the same text differently?
Examine how reading is an active process shaped by the social, cultural and cognitive resources a reader brings to a text
How do you reflect on and justify the choices you made in your own composition?
Reflect on and explain the deliberate choices made in composing a text and their intended effect on an audience
How do specific language and stylistic features create meaning and effect?
Analyse how language, stylistic and literary features create meaning, tone and effect in a text
How do you build a sustained analytical essay on a studied text?
Construct a sustained analytical response that develops an interpretation supported by textual evidence and metalanguage
Unit 4: Perspectives, Argument and Response
Module overview →How do visual and multimodal texts construct meaning through image, layout and design?
Analyse how visual and multimodal texts construct perspectives and position viewers through visual and design choices
How do texts construct particular perspectives and representations?
Analyse how texts construct perspectives and representations of people, events and ideas through selection and emphasis
How do you analyse unseen texts under exam conditions?
Comprehend and analyse unseen texts, identifying perspective, technique and effect under timed conditions
How do texts construct identity, culture and place rather than simply describe them?
Analyse how texts construct representations of identity, culture and place and position readers toward them
How can a text be read from different critical positions, including against its own invitation?
Read texts from a range of critical positions, including accepting, negotiating and resisting the reading a text invites
How do you develop, defend and test an interpretation against other readings?
Develop and test interpretations of texts through reasoned argument, evidence and consideration of alternative readings
How do texts draw on, respond to and reshape other texts?
Analyse how intertextual references and connections shape the meaning and effect of a text
How do you compose a controlled persuasive or interpretive text?
Create persuasive and interpretive texts that develop a clear position through structure, evidence and rhetorical choice
How do point of view and voice carry underlying values and ideology?
Analyse how point of view, voice and language encode the values, attitudes and ideology of a text
How do rhetorical appeals and argument structure work to persuade a reader?
Analyse how rhetorical appeals and the structure of an argument work together to persuade an audience