This unit (VU22438) describes the skills and knowledge to interpret and critically evaluate and synthesise a range of highly complex paper and web based text types to participate in the community. These include intricate, dense and extended texts including specialised contexts. Students at this level work autonomously and use and evaluate a broad range of support resources.

Unit details

Location:
City Flinders
Footscray Nicholson
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Study level:
Vocational and further education (TAFE)
Unit code:
VU22438

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Assessment

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines. Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills: - apply a repertoire of reading strategies to interpret and critically evaluate structurally complex texts; - assess relevance of texts to own purposes and needs; - assess the validity of online information; - technology skills to access and navigate web based digital text to locate and assess highly complex texts, and; - planning and organising skills to gather, select and synthesise information effectively for own specific purposes/needs by defining information requirements both before and during research. Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge: - the ways in which language is used to make hypotheses and convey implicit meaning to influence others; - broad or specialised vocabulary related to community participation to support comprehension including cultural references as appropriate; - devices used by writers to convey and influence meaning and achieve purpose; - differences in presentation between paper based and web based texts, and; - register and its influence on expression and meaning in text types.

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