T2W1L4: composing advice

• purpose and structure:
  • if you are writing a memoir, consider whether you might start in the present and use the device of flashback, or begin your text in the past and flash forward.
  • for persuasive texts, think about the cause / effect or or problem / solution structure. consider concluding with a call to action.
  • in a narrative, consider how you might manipulate the basic structure of exposition, rising action, suspense, climax, resolution.
• audience
  • be aware of your audience. for example if you are writing a short detective piece for a middle years audience, you might focus on the mystery of the crime and adventure, rather than the forensic science of a story for older readers. you might also choose a first person narrator, who leads a band of ill-fitting friends, rather than a jaded detective, struggling with the pressure and brutality of his/her job.
• persuasive text

1. attention grabber
   • ‘hook’ the reader’s attention eg rhetorical questions
     • anecdote / humour
2. establish the need:
   • (also establish audience)
   • identify the need or show audience the problem.
     • facts & statistics
     • credibility (why should audience listen to you)
3. satisfy the need
   • outline your solution to the problem
     • facts
     • opinion
4. visualise
   • the audience needs to see a future that you are proposing
5. call of action
   • leave the audience

• how to paragraph

  • paragraphing with purpose

  • there are three times when you should start a new paragraph in narrative writing

  1. every time you change time or location, a new paragraph is needed.
  2. you start a new topic. from describing a setting to representing the feelings of a new character. this would require a new paragraph
  3. when a new character speaks.

• swoosh narrative

  • incident -> backfill -> rising action -> climatic resolution

practice prompt: [in a text type of your choice, compose a text inspired by a national Australian issue.] persuasive: australia day should not be celebrated narrative: in the point of the view of the land, the aboriginals being evicted from the land

[compose a text type of your choice that uses stylistic features or language features to convey an event or issue]