Literacy

In this subject, students extend and apply their literacy capability by, for example:

• cultivating specialised and appropriate language, terminology, and discourse
• analysing, justifying, and presenting reasoned arguments
• developing skills to clearly articulate and communicate ideas, and propose solutions using supporting evidence
• formulating and defending positions
• using a variety of language conventions
• identifying and critiquing written, oral, data, and visual sources and online materials
• cultivating legal research skills and sourcing authoritative materials
• analysing different perspectives to consider context, relevance, purpose, bias, accuracy, and reliability
• critically extracting information from a range of sources and drawing appropriate conclusions
• referencing and acknowledging of sources
• presenting material in a range of formats and text types
• using a variety of literacy skills to demonstrate thinking, knowledge, and understanding.