BR1224 - Critical Literacy: Text Analysis

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Indigenous Australian Studies

In this English subject students are introduced to ways of critically analysing a variety of texts for academic purposes. This will be achieved through reflection upon the structure of texts using informal logic and persuasive devices. A range of documents will be examined for analysis from the media and popular culture, public everyday texts, science and health related texts and oral transcripts.

Learning Outcomes

• identify devices of persuasion and techniques of bias in a range of text types (print and visual);
• assess informal logic in arguments and evaluate the use of statistics in texts;
• develop critical ability in relation to reading, speaking and writing;
• critically analyse the social construction in texts in relation to the who, how and why;
• develop the ability to deconstruct texts at an introductory level.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to evaluate that information.

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 28-Aug-2009
Coordinator:	Ms Emma Ignjic
Lecturer:	Ms Lynette Mackay.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures - 2 hour lecture/week 13 hours tutorials - 1 hour tutorial/week; commence Week 1
Assessment:	other exams (40%); presentations (20%); written evaluative response to a text article (40%).
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2009
Coordinator:	Ms Emma Ignjic
Lecturer:	Ms Lynette Mackay.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures - 2 hour lecture/week 13 hours tutorials - 1 hour tutorial/week; commence Week 1
Assessment:	other exams (40%); presentations (20%); written evaluative response to text article (40%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 28-Aug-2009
Coordinator:	Ms Emma Ignjic
Lecturers:	Ms Emma Ignjic, jc153816.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures - 2 hour lecture/week 13 hours tutorials - 1 hour tutorial/week; commence Week 1
Assessment:	other exams (40%); presentations (20%); written evaluative response to a text article (40%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2009
Coordinator:	Ms Emma Ignjic
Lecturers:	Ms Emma Ignjic, jc153816.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures - 2 hour lecture/week 13 hours tutorials - 1 hour tutorial/week; commence Week 1
Assessment:	other exams (40%); presentations (20%); written evaluative response to a text article (40%).

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