Related text folio
Text version
Introduction
Hi, so you have to find texts for a related text folio for your area of study.
You are going to learn about how to collect, record, analyse and use your related texts
in your area of study work.
A related text folio is your collection of texts that reflects your ideas, perspectives and
understanding about the area of study.
It is important for you to individually choose your own related texts for your folio.
Hint
For help with your area of study check the Board of Studies Area of Study Support
document.
www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/
Before you start
Before you start searching for texts look at what your related text folio should contain.
Your related text folio should contain:
1. a variety of texts
2. texts that reflect your ideas about the area of study
3. comments about the texts
4. analysis of the language forms and features of the texts
5. links to the area of study and other texts.
Hints
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You will use your related texts from your folio in activities and assessment tasks
as you explore the area of study.
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Talk to your teacher about how to organise and present tour folio.
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Your texts
Texts for your RTF should be from a variety of sources. You should have text
examples from print, visual and multimodal sources.
Look at the suggestions:
newspaper reports
cartoons
films
magazine articles
comics
documentaries
novels
picture books
TV programs
short stories
art works
computer games
poems
multimedia products
speeches
song lyrics
radio programs
websites.
plays
essays
feature articles
pamphlets
brochures
Hints
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Choose texts that interest you and can access.
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Select texts that reflect your thinking about the area of study.
Collecting
Before your begin collecting have four or five topics from your area of study. It will
help to focus your search.
Where to look for texts:
1. Use the library to begin your search. Use your topic headings to focus on
information in reference books, novels, poems, nonfiction works, art works…
2. Use the TV guide to source relevant shows, documentaries and movies. Keep
a viewing journal to record your viewing and use it to analyse relevant texts.
3. Use the Internet. Remember to consider who produced the site, reliability and
appropriate materials.
4. Use the print news media to find newspaper and magazine stories and
articles.
Evaluating a text
1. Is the text relevant to the area of study concept?
2. Does it provide a new or interesting insight into the concept?
3. Is it a different type of text to the other texts?
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4. Is it a text you can link to other texts?
Hints
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Don't leave it to the last minute to get your texts organised and analysed.
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Try to collect up-to-date texts from newspapers and magazines.
Recording
As you search for texts don't forget to write down information about where they came
from.
For each text you need to write down:
1. where the text came from, was it from a newspaper, radio show, magazine,
pamphlet
2. full name of the text
3. author or composer
4. type of text, was it a TV program, documentary film, feature article
5. date of publication, viewing or accessing the website.
Look at these examples for recording text details:
The global debate, director John Pilger, television program, ABCTV, June 2007.
The future of gaming, newspaper report, Sydney Morning Herald, February, 2007.
Hints
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Label each text and include the answers to the focus questions in your folio
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Keep a list of the websites you access in your searches.
Analysing
After you have found your texts you need to analyse and write some information
about each.
Use the focus questions to help analyse your texts.
Focus questions
1. What is the purpose, audience and context of the text?
2. How is the text related to the concept?
3. How is the text structured?
4. How are two or three techniques used to reflect the purpose?
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5. How is the text related to other texts? Select one or two key points.
6. How does the text influence your understanding of the concept?
Print: Focus questions worksheet (.pdf 17 kB)
Hints
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Keep the answers to the focus questions in your folio with the text
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For TV shows and films write a detailed review include in your folio.
Linking
As you collect and analyse your texts don't forget to link your ideas about the area of
study to your related texts.
Try to think of specific links to other texts you have read or seen. It may be an
incident, a character, a graphic or issue.
Draw a table to help you link your ideas, your texts and the texts you are studying in
class.
Aspect of the area of study
Related text
Links to other texts
Look at these examples (.pdf 18 KB) of linking texts to the area of study.
Hints
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Don't forget to link the features and techniques in the texts you are collecting.
Tasks
Don't forget to link the features and techniques in the texts you are collecting.
Sample question 1
From your reading and viewing activities, what is your understanding of one issue in
the area of study you are studying?
In your answer you should refer to one provided text and one text of your own
choosing.
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Sample question 2
You have been invited to speak at the book launch of a new collection of articles
entitled 'My concept'.
In your speech, explain and assess the ways in which the concept is represented in the
texts included in this collection.
In your answer you should refer to a provided text and one other related text of your
own choosing.
Make sure you read the dot points about what you will be marked on before you begin
your response:
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demonstrate understanding of the concept you are studying
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analyse, explain and comment on the ways the concept is represented in the texts
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organise, develop and express your ideas using language appropriate to audience,
purpose and context.
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