Media+Analysis

=**The Tasks - Unit 3** = **Area of Study 3:** Using language to persuade **Outcome 3:** The study design states that students must: 'identify and analyse how language is used in a persuasive text and to present a reasoned point of view in an oral or a written form.' ** 3b: Oral Presentation ** This will be the first assessment task in the ‘Using Language to Persuade’ unit. This will be an oral presentation between 5-10 minutes (no longer!) of a point of view, and will be performed at a designated time on Friday 18th of February. **3a: Language Analysis** **This task will be completed on the afternoon of Wednesday the 16th of March. For some teacher feedback on observations made in practice pieces, **click here****

=Resources for Outcome 3a= Here is a pdf document containing sections from many different texts that will help you to understand what to do for the task, how to plan and write the response, and how to plan and perform your persuasive oral presentation:

**Persuasive Oral Communication Models**
The following pages are from the ABC website and are part of the IQ2 debate series. Click on a topic to learn about the topic, speakers, and to see video clips of the speakers in action. [|For a sporting nation, Australia isn't very sporting] [|China is not fit to host the Olympics] [|Popular culture; we've seen the future and it's junk] [|Are we better off?] [|The media can't be trusted to tell the truth]

**Alcohol and Adolescents**
[|Drinking Nightmare] Australian Government website with information that may help you in understanding the issue and finding facts this is a collection of articles from the Ebsco server (available on library website) on the issue.
 * [[file:051010_booze_heraldsun.pdf]] || [[file:261210_everyonesproblem_theage.pdf]] ||  ||
 * [[file:061010_alcoholsex_theage.pdf]] || [[file:260910_alcopop_theage.pdf]] ||  ||
 * [[file:bingeing_heraldsun.pdf]] || [[file:130409_nosafelimit_theage.pdf]] ||  ||
 * [[file:290409_brainsalcohol_theage.pdf]] || [[file:081110_lawcall_theage.pdf]] ||  ||

=**Resources for Outcome 3b** =

Annotating an article
here is the file I created which takes you through the steps to annotating an article this is the file where you can read through annotated examples from the textbook

Writing your Response - Language Analysis
Here are templates for the two different ways in which you can construct your media analysis. You may choose to structure your written response by using either of these.

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Persuasive Techniques
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**Analysing the News**
[|Media Knowall] a nice resource explaining how we approach analysing the news [|The Age] guide to writing on persuasive language