experiment with text types
- in order to make a decision about which text type plays to your strengths, you have to experiment with your writing. one way to do this is to take a single prompt and transfer into different text types.
prompt: in a text type of your choice compose a text that makes comment on a contemporary Australian issue
- persuasive
- speech
- feature article
- interpretive
- biography
- personal essay
- diary entry
| text type | possible ideas | feature or genre/text |
|---|---|---|
| imaginative (short story) | setting: australian beach issue: bushfires situation: a group of people are trapped by fire and have to retreat into the ocean for safety | - first person pov, descriptive language, dialogue, title, plot structure |
| imaginative (script) | setting: rural australia issue: bushfires characters: volunteer firefighters faced with victim reluctant to leave their houses in spite of impending inferno | - setting/character description, dialogue, stage direction, title |
- australian issues
- asylum seekers
- indigenous rights
- homelessness
- rights of the elderly