Senior Text Types: A Writing Guide for Students is a full colour third edition with new and updated text types and activities. The comprehensive guide is a reference tool for improving writing skills and presents over 30 different types of written texts to senior students. Each text type is presented in a double page format, with one page analysing the structure of the genre and the second page presenting an example of the text – this presentation provides the scaffolding and modelling necessary for the development of writing skills.

Features

• Full colour third edition with new and updated text types and activities.
• Includes a glossary of terms, writing activities and a matrix of text types.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Advertisement
• Chapter 2: Agenda and minutes: business meeting
• Chapter 3: Biography
• Chapter 4: Blog
• Chapter 5: Brochure / Flyer
• Chapter 6: Description: informative and literary
• Chapter 7: Editorial
• Chapter 8: Essay: comparative
• Chapter 9: Essay: persuasive
• Chapter 10: Feature Article
• Chapter 11: Job Application: letter
• Chapter 12: Job Application: resume
• Chapter 13: Job Interview
• Chapter 14: Letter: business
• Chapter 15: Letter to the editor
• Chapter 16: Narrative genre: teenage romance
• Chapter 17: Narrative genre: speculative fiction
• Chapter 18: News Article
• Chapter 19: Nonfiction: aspects and analysis
• Chapter 20: Novel: essay
• Chapter 21: Play: modern drama esssay
• Chapter 22: Play Script: writing and performing
• Chapter 23: Poetry: analysis
• Chapter 24: Report
• Chapter 25: Research assignment
• Chapter 26: Review: documentary
• Chapter 27: Review: film
• Chapter 28: Review: play
• Chapter 29: Shakespearean drama: aspects and analysis
• Chapter 30: Shakespearean drama: essay
• Chapter 31: Short story
• Chapter 32: Song
• Chapter 33: Speech: monologue
• Chapter 34: Speech: occasional
• Chapter 35: Speech: text-based
• Chapter 36: Textual intervention
• Chapter 37: Textual reconstruction
• Chapter 38: Website: corporate
• Chapter 39: Website: informational
• Appendix 1: Glossary
• Appendix 2: Writing activities
• Appendix 3: Table of text types