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Insight Issues: Junior Years
By Melanie Napthine & Robert Beardwood
Digital: $14.95 | Print + Digital: $24.95
Available: October 2019
Insight Issues: Junior Years is based on the highly successful Insight Issues: For and Against and aims to give junior secondary students an accessible introduction to argument and persuasive language.With clear explanations and relevant examples, the book provides a strong foundation for understanding, analysing and producing persuasive texts throughout the secondary-school years.The book features:
- Work units based on engaging texts about contemporary issues
- Scaffolded activities that develop students’ analytical and written skills progressively
- A variety of text-creation activities, supported by writing tools such as word and phrase banks, sentence starters, cloze exercises, templates and models.
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| Other titles in the Argument & Persuasive Language Series |
| Insight Issues: For & Against |
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Insight Issues: For & Against
By Melanie Napthine & Marie Rimpas
Print + Digital: $24.95 | Digital: $14.95
Aimed at students in Years 9 and 10 and providing excellent preparation for senior English studies, Insight Issues: For & Against focuses on understanding and analysing argument and persuasive language.Each of the book’s eight units begins with two texts that present opposing points of view on an issue. A variety of exercises and activities develop students’ skills in writing analytically about argument and persuasive language, and in presenting their own point of view. Each unit focuses on a different aspect of persuasive texts and introduces metalanguage in an accessible and purposeful way.
The book features:
- Eight work units, based on a range of stimulating and engaging persuasive texts
- Scaffolded activities and exercises designed to progressively develop analytical and writing skills
- Extension questions and activities
- One unit focused on presenting a point of view, both orally and in writing, drawing on knowledge and skills developed throughout the book.
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Argument & Persuasive Language 2nd edition
By Sandra Duncanson & Claire Warr
Print + Digital: $36.95 | Print: $26.95 | Digital: $17.95
Insight’s two Key Skills for Senior English titles combine the informative benefits of a textbook with the practical applications of a workbook. They build students’ confidence and skills progressively, leading to stronger written and oral assessments in Units 1–4.
Key Skills for Senior English: Area of Study 2 takes a step-by-step approach to developing students’ understanding of the ways in which persuasive language and argument techniques work together to present a point of view. This holistic approach to Area of Study 2 is supported by a wide range of text types about interesting, up-to-date issues.
The book features:
- Well-scaffolded activities and exercises to suit a range of abilities
- Step-by-step approaches to each outcome, including SAC and exam tasks
- Annotated sample responses with assessor comments.
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Argument & Persuasive Language 2nd edition
By Melanie Napthine
Print + Digital: $45.95 | Print: $35.95 | Digital: $24.95
Insight’s Argument & Persuasive Language provides comprehensive coverage of Area of Study 2 of the VCE English/EAL course and can be used from middle years and retained until Year 12. It covers the analysis of argument and of persuasive language in a variety of media texts, supported by stimulating activities that progressively develop students’ analytical skills.
The book features:
- An integrated approach to the analysis of argument and persuasive language
- Clear and accessible explanations of all key knowledge, including metalanguage
- Engaging explanations, activities and practical support, including word banks, sentence starters and model sentences, showing students how to write analytically about argument and persuasive language in a holistic way
- Media texts of all types on a range of engaging and contemporary issues
- Guidelines and models for comparing argument and persuasive language in different media texts on the same issue
- Strategies and guidelines for presenting a point of view and writing a statement of intention
- High-level sample responses with annotations
- An exam practice chapter with sample exam scenarios.
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