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English 2010 Sample assessment instrument and student responses

Extended response: written persuasive text suitable for a public audience This sample is intended to inform the design of assessment instruments in the senior phase of learning. It highlights the qualities of student work and the match to the syllabus standards.

Dimensions assessed • Understanding and responding to contexts

• Understanding and controlling textual features

• Creating and evaluating meaning.

Assessment instrument The response presented in this sample is in response to an assessment task.

Context: You have read and analysed a selection of editorial cartoons and humorous feature articles and have explored the ways that cartoonists and journalists use humour and other textual and aesthetic features to represent ideas and attitudes. Task: Write a feature article which analyses how a newspaper columnist or editorial cartoonist uses humour and other techniques to represent particular ideas or attitudes and how this influences readers. Genre: feature article Role: student columnist Audience: readers of a weekend newspaper Purpose: to analyse; to evaluate Length: 800–1000 words

Note: Colour highlights have been used in the table to emphasise the qualities that discriminate between the standards.

Key: Describes how well the objective is demonstrated

Describes the effect of choices

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Instrument-specific criteria and standards Student responses have been matched to instrument-specific criteria and standards; those which best describe the student work in this sample are shown below. For more information about the syllabus dimensions and standards descriptors, see www.qsa.qld.edu.au/11703.html.

Standard A Standard C

Understanding and responding to contexts

The student work has the following characteristics:


• exploitation of genre patterns and conventions of a feature article to achieve specific purposes

• use of genre patterns and conventions of a feature article to achieve purposes

• discerning selection, organisation and synthesis of relevant and substantive subject matter to support opinions and perspectives

• selection, sequencing and organisation of relevant subject matter to support opinions and perspectives

• manipulation and control of roles of the feature article writer and relationship with newspaper audiences.

• establishment and maintenance of roles of the feature article writer and relationships with newspaper audiences.

Understanding and controlling textual features



• a discerning combination of a range of grammatically accurate language structures for specific effects, including clauses and sentences

• use of a range of mostly grammatically accurate language structures to achieve purposes, including clauses and sentences

• discerning use of cohesive devices to develop and emphasise ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including paragraphing

• use of cohesive devices to link ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including paragraphing

• discerning use of a wide range of apt vocabulary for specific purposes

• use of suitable vocabulary for purposes

• discerning use of mode-appropriate features to achieve specific effects:

- conventional spelling and punctuation

- design elements

• suitable use of mode-appropriate features to achieve purposes:

- conventional spelling and punctuation - design elements

Creating and evaluating meaning.



• discerning analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin humorous texts and influence audiences

• analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin humorous texts and influence audiences

• subtle and complex evaluation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in humorous texts

• evaluation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in humorous texts

• discerning evaluation of aesthetic features and their effects in humorous texts

• identification and explanation of aesthetic features and their effects in humorous texts


Indicative response — Standard A The annotations show the match to the instrument-specific standards.

Comments

discerning use of mode-appropriate features to achieve specific effects exploitation of genre patterns and conventions of a feature article to achieve specific purposes a discerning combination of a range of grammatically accurate language structures for specific effects, including clauses and sentences manipulation and control of roles of the feature article writer and relationship with newspaper audiences discerning use of a wide range of apt vocabulary for specific purposes a discerning combination of a range of grammatically accurate language structures for specific effects, including clauses and sentences



Comments

discerning selection, organisation and synthesis of relevant and substantive subject matter to support opinions and perspectives subtle and complex evaluation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in humorous texts discerning analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin humorous texts and influence audiences discerning use of a wide range of apt vocabulary for specific purposes discerning use of cohesive devices to develop and emphasise ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including paragraphing discerning evaluation of aesthetic features and their effects in humorous texts manipulation and control of roles of the feature article writer and relationship with newspaper audiences



Comments

discerning selection, organisation and synthesis of relevant and substantive subject matter to support opinions and perspectives exploitation of genre patterns and conventions of a feature article to achieve specific purposes manipulation and control of roles of the feature article writer and relationship with newspaper audiences a discerning combination of a range of grammatically accurate language structures for specific effects, including clauses and sentences manipulation and control of roles of the feature article writer and relationship with newspaper audiences


Indicative response — Standard C The annotations show the match to the instrument-specific standards.

Comments

suitable use of mode-appropriate features to achieve purposes

establishment and maintenance of roles of the feature article writer and relationships with newspaper audiences

use of suitable vocabulary for purposes use of a range of mostly grammatically accurate language structures to achieve purposes, including clauses and sentences use of genre patterns and conventions of a feature article to achieve purposes selection, sequencing and organisation of relevant subject matter to support opinions and perspectives



Comments

establishment and maintenance of roles of the feature article writer and relationships with newspaper audiences selection, sequencing and organisation of relevant subject matter to support opinions and perspectives analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin humorous texts and influence audiences use of suitable vocabulary for purposes use of cohesive devices to link ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including paragraphing analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin humorous texts and influence audiences identification and explanation of aesthetic features and their effects in humorous texts evaluation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in humorous texts



Comments

use of a range of mostly grammatically accurate language structures to achieve purposes, including clauses and sentences analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin humorous texts and influence audiences identification and explanation of aesthetic features and their effects in humorous texts use of genre patterns and conventions of a feature article to achieve purposes use of cohesive devices to link ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including paragraphing establishment and maintenance of roles of the feature article writer and relationships with newspaper audiences


Acknowledgments The QSA acknowledges the contribution of All Saints Anglican School in the preparation of this document.

Cartoons used with the permission of Peter Nicholson www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au

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