1. IA1: Genre patterns and conventions
Grace Loyden
Townsville Grammar School
18th August 2018

2. Grace Loyden
Head of Faculty
Townsville Grammar School

3. Recognise the nuances of IA1 as specified in the English Syllabus (2019)
Determine a range of purposes and contexts applicable to writing about literature
Describe the patterns and conventions of texts written for a public audience
Consider possible ways of approaching IA1 in 2019
Learning Objectives

4. Focuses on the analysis, interpretation and examination of concepts in texts.
It is an open-ended task responding to two texts connected by the representation of a concept, identity, time or place, and written for a public audience.
One of the studied texts must be a literary text from the prescribed text list.
What is IA1 all about?

5. Students offer a considered perspective, positioning the reader to think about the texts in particular ways and in relation to one another.
While the primary purpose of the response is to analyse the representations in the two texts, engaging public audiences in media texts may involve elements of creative, reflective and persuasive writing.
Students are to write a media text such as an article, essay, blog or column for an online publication or an article, essay or column for a print publication.

7. academic writing is “turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read, and impossible to understand.”
the first step in improving academic writing is to learn to reduce the jargon academics use and express concepts clearly.
Many academics, including us, now realize that if we want to reach people who might benefit from our research, we have to step out of the ivory tower. We academics need to enter the discussion that the rest of the world engages in every day.

8. Genre Patterns & Conventions

9. ETAQ Presentation\ETAQ Townsville notes.pdf

11. Analysis of Student Work
Please return these resources at the conclusion of the session.

12. Written analytical for a public audience
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 5
Year 8
Written analytical for a public audience
Spoken persuasive
Written imaginative
Written analytical
Spoken imaginative
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Year 12

13. Middle School Work Program (002).pdf

14. 10 English Extension
aimed at students who would like to study Literature and/or English and Literature Extension in students, or the International Baccalaureate
the IB curriculum requires students to study a text in translation

15. connecting stylistic features
text pairing:
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (originally in German)
Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan
connecting concepts:
psychological trauma of war
bravery
the abuse of power
connecting stylistic features
non-linear narrative structure
sensory scenes
vague sense of timing
erratic perspective
symbolism (dead soldiers’ boots, the earth)
contrasting tone – condemnatory versus observational