ACELY1742
Elaborations
- debating the reliability of the coverage in a range of news media of a contentious issue such as commercial logging of old growth forests
- evaluating techniques used to construct plot and create emotional responses such as comparison, contrast, exaggeration, juxtaposition, the changing of chronological order, or the expansion and compression of time
- constructing questions to frame an analysis of differing representations on moral issues in texts, and including a critical analysis of a personal view in the overall analysis of the issue
- identifying whether two texts may share a common purpose or audience, for example a feature article on a particular website or in a particular newspaper
- analysing how issues are debated and reported in the media in different countries, and the possible reasons for this, for example ‘whaling’ in Japan and Australia
- analysing and interpreting assumptions about groups that have shaped or influenced representations of people, places, events and things; identifying how listeners, viewers and readers are positioned by these representations, and supporting identified points with examples
Modes
- Reading Reading
- Writing Writing
- Speaking Speaking
- Listening Listening
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