Questions

=Questions for Language Analysis in Year 11=

1. What is the issue? Who are the stakeholders? Who is the audience of this article? 2. What is the writer’s contention? 3. What are the writer’s arguments? (In your own words.) 4. How does the headline attract the reader’s attention? 5. What is the writer’s tone? 6. Identify and explain the writer’s use of evidence (statistics, experts, anecdotes) to persuade the reader. 7. Analyse the writer’s use of language to persuade the reader to their point of view. Why and how is the reader trying to position the reader through their use of language? 8. In your own words explain how effective this article is in persuading the reader to the writer’s point of view.