Comparative Language Analysis Planning Document Name: _______________________ Step 1. Read the articles you have been given. Step 2. Identify the topic. This is typically one or two words: _________________________________ Identify the issue. Frame the topic as a question, as this will mean that there are two obvious sides to the issue. e.g. Topic: NAPLAN; Issue: Is completing NAPLAN worthwhile? __________________________________________________________________________________ Step 3. Identify the key details about the articles. #1: Title: ________________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Author: ___________________ Publication: _______________________ Text Type: _____________ #2: Title: ________________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Author: ___________________ Publication: _______________________ Text Type: _____________ Step 4. Identify each author’s contention (main argument). This is most likely their overall response to the issue. e.g. Contention: The negatives of NAPLAN outweigh the positives. #1: _______________________________________________________________________________ #2: _______________________________________________________________________________ Step 5. Identify 2 different types of tone (emotion) that each author uses. #1: Tone 1. ________________________________ Tone 2. ________________________________ #2: Tone 1. ________________________________ Tone 2. ________________________________ The following steps refer to the tables on the next pages. Each table corresponds to a body paragraph. Step 6. WHAT? Identify the different arguments that each author uses to support their contention. Note that they may be arguing different sides of the same topic. Step 7. WHERE? For each of the arguments identified, provide a quote that shows where the author makes this argument. A quote can be 1-2 words or a sentence. Step 8. HOW? For each of the quotes listed, identify what persuasive technique is being used. Step 9. WHY? For each of the techniques listed in Step 8, explain what impact this has on the audience. What are they expected to think, feel, or do in response to this language use. PLANNING FOR BODY PARAGRAPH 1: What idea do both texts talk about? What does text 2 say about it? Give a quote from text 1 to support this. Give a quote from text 2 to support this. What persuasive technique is the author using in this quote? What persuasive technique is the author using in this quote? What is this designed to make the audience feel, and therefore do? What is this designed to make the audience feel, and therefore do? Step 9 – WHY? Step 8 – HOW? Step 7 – WHERE? Step 6 – WHAT? What does text 1 say about it? Step 10 – COMPARISON What is similar about how the authors approach this idea? What is different about how the authors approach this idea? PLANNING FOR BODY PARAGRAPH 2: What idea do both texts talk about? What does text 2 say about it? Give a quote from text 1 to support this. Give a quote from text 2 to support this. What persuasive technique is the author using in this quote? What persuasive technique is the author using in this quote? What is this designed to make the audience feel, and therefore do? What is this designed to make the audience feel, and therefore do? Step 9 – WHY? Step 8 – HOW? Step 7 – WHERE? Step 6 – WHAT? What does text 1 say about it? Step 10 – COMPARISON What is similar about how the authors approach this idea? What is different about how the authors approach this idea? PLANNING FOR BODY PARAGRAPH 3: What idea do the images with text 1 support? What does the image suggest about it? Give a quote from the text to support this. Give a description from the image to support this. What persuasive technique is the author using in this quote? What persuasive technique is the author using in this image? What is this designed to make the audience feel, and therefore do? What is this designed to make the audience feel, and therefore do? Step 9 – WHY? Step 8 – HOW? Step 7 – WHERE? Step 6 – WHAT? What does the text say about it? Step 10 – COMPARISON What is similar about how the text and the image approach this idea? What is different about how the text and the image approach this idea?
