Using Language to Persuade 2e is a fully revised edition of Oxford’s best selling VCE English title. Written to meet the requirements of the revised VCE English Study Design, Outcome 3: Using Language to Persuade, this comprehensive resource will prepare students for assessment success. Major changes for the new edition include more visual texts for analysis, updated stimulus material so students have current media texts and issues to work with and a full colour design.

Title overview (PDF)

• This is a dedicated, comprehensive and focused resource covering an area of senior English students often have difficulty with.
• Many of the featured visual and written texts are from authentic sources such as The Age, The Herald Sun and The Australian.
• The units can be worked through sequentially, or individual units selected to support a particular class or outcome. The text is suitable for classroom or homework use.
• The Assessment Toolkit section saves students and teachers time.
• Includes practice assessment tasks, templates and a glossary.
• The attractive, full-colour design has plenty of space for students to write in.
• The content is very student-centred, incorporating individual, pair and group work.

Part 1: Introduction

What is this book about?
Information for VCE students
Being ‘positioned’—considering context, purpose, audience, language, form
Helpful habits to form


Part 2: Issues and events, points of view and contentions

Issues and events
Points of view
Contentions


Part 3: Persuasive language

Metalanguage and persuasive strategies
Verbal language
Non-verbal language
Visual language
Putting it all together


Part 4: Persuasive texts

Media text types
Print media sources
Media texts online
Finding reliable evidence online
Newspapers
Print texts in newspapers
Other print texts
Non-print texts
Visual and multimodal texts
Analysing visual and multimodal texts—
note taking


Part 5: Language analysis

What is language analysis?
Critical questions of language analysis
Useful language
Style
Tone
How to construct an analysis
Language focus: vary your sentence structures
Language focus: avoid says that


Part 6: Expressing your own point of view

Overview
Tips
Planning a point-of-view response
Oral presentation of a point of view


Part 7: Toolkit Warm-ups

Practice SAC and examination tasks
Templates
Referencing
Glossary of key terms/metalanguage

Using Language to Persuade - sample pages