Module One Introduction
Module One is all about how language is used to exert power. You will learn how writers and speakers gain the power to influence their audience by making deliberate choices.
For the assignment, you will analyse a speech.
The key skills you need to demonstrate (for reading) are:
Interpretation: understand the main ideas in a text, make inferences (‘read between the lines’) and interpretations and evaluate why a text is important.
Methods: explore the effects of the methods writers use (such as techniques or word choices) to create texts and comment on the impact of methods.
You should work through each topic, reading the texts, completing the activities and watching any videos.
Before you complete Assignment 01, there are five topics to complete:
Module One Topic Work
Topic One (1.1): Rhetorical Devices