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BR1224:03
Critical Literacy: Text Analysis
Available to Tertiary Access Course students.
Ms L MacKay (Townsville campus);
Ms E Ignjic (Cairns campus).
Students are introduced to ways of analysing texts so that they gain control of linguistic and semiotic codes used in them. Advanced analytical skills will enable students to expose the underlying ideologies and assumptions upon which they operate. Possibilities for alternative readings and writings will be encouragd. A range of documents from the media and popular culture, public everyday texts and transcripts of talk will be integrated for analysis.
reflecton how texts are constructed by identifying techniques of bias, persuasion, informal logic and statistics as they are used in a range of print and visual texts;