Course topics.

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1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Analysing language, structural and stylistic choices across texts
• How a text conforms to or challenges the conventions of its genre or mode
• Comparing how similar themes, issues, ideas and concepts are treated in different texts
• Techniques and conventions of different genres and modes: written, visual and multimodal
• How genre conventions can be manipulated and how genres have changed over time
• How language patterns create meaning
• Genre expectations: the effect when expectations are met or subverted
• How responses to texts and genres change over time and in different cultural contexts
• Transforming and adapting texts for different purposes, contexts and audiences
• The role of the audience in making meaning, and comparing the impact of language features
• Close analysis: reading content, structure and voice in detail
• Comparing the contexts in which texts are created and received
• Analysing content, purpose and choice of language to reveal perspectives, attitudes and values
• Voice and narrative point of view: first/third person, omniscient/restricted, reliable/unreliable
• Exploring other interpretations and aspects of context to develop a considered response
• How the selection of mode, genre and type of text offers a perspective
• Representing viewpoints and values: language features that generate empathy or controversy
• Sustaining a personal voice and synthesising ideas into complex argument
• Substantiating responses with textual evidence, quotation and referencing protocols
• Questioning assumptions and values: omissions, inclusions, emphases and marginalisations