Tightening analysis: thesis, evidence integration, rhetorical precision and the register of academic writing.
These are the statements the English Year 9 syllabus makes about Language and Argument. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Thesis statements and line of argument - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Integrating quotations into analysis - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Analysis versus description - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Rhetorical devices and their effects - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Tone, register and audience - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Cohesion across an essay - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Concession and rebuttal - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Evaluative vocabulary - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Formal academic style - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Structural features of an argument - Language and Argument, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Language and Argument are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones English Year 9 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Language and Argument is module 3 of 3 in English Year 9. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses English Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.