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Unit 4: Perspectives, Argument and Response

10 dot points across 10 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do visual and multimodal texts construct meaning through image, layout and design?

How do texts construct particular perspectives and representations?

How do you analyse unseen texts under exam conditions?

How do texts construct identity, culture and place rather than simply describe them?

How can a text be read from different critical positions, including against its own invitation?

How do you develop, defend and test an interpretation against other readings?

How do texts draw on, respond to and reshape other texts?

How do you compose a controlled persuasive or interpretive text?

How do point of view and voice carry underlying values and ideology?

How do rhetorical appeals and argument structure work to persuade a reader?