Analyzing Argument

Analysing Argument

Reinforce your analysing argument skills with the assistance of this QUIZZ

Analysing more than one article

When analysing more than one article you need to focus on ensuring you identify the issue background the texts are written in response to. The rest of the analysis focuses on analysing how the different parts of the article contribute to the authors' achieving their overall intention and purpose for writing the article.

This quizz lesson focuses on teaching how to write an Analysing Argument text using the Block Structure and looks at an introduction.

Introduction using the Block Structure

• Summarise issue background
  

• Identify writer, contention, central argument and intention of first and second piece.
  

Read the following articles and complete the practice introduction task after you have read them.

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Grand final holiday: win for Wimmera families Opinion - Wimmera Mail Times By JEREMY VENOSTA Oct. 8, 2015, 11:41 a.m.

Read the article from Wimmera Mail Times

AMID all the outcry from businesses about the state government’s AFL grand final eve public holiday, an important group have had their voices drowned out. The point of the day off is to give families a weekend where they can plan a way to get the most enjoyment from the biggest sporting event on Victoria’s calendar.

Grand Final Friday – when thought bubbles become law by Brett Hogan on October 2, 2015

Freedom Watch

Read the article from Freedom Watch

Today is Victoria’s first Grand Final Friday Public Holiday. Hopefully it will also be the last. While unions and some casuals have fantasised about all the extra pay, most casuals will get less because their business, unable to pay up to double time and a half for the same work, just won’t be open.

Multiple Select

The issue background is..

• The introduction of the AFL Grand Final Holiday in Victoria

• Public holidays

• The AFL Grand Final

Multiple Choice

Pick the most appropriate sentence starter to begin discussing the writer's contention.

• In response to this issue there have been a number of points of view

• The argument that author is making

• The writers are saying in this article

Multiple Choice

What is Jeremy Venosta doing?

• demanding a public holiday for businesses

• advocating for a public holiday to give families time together

• criticising public holidays

Multiple Choice

What is Brett Hogan doing?

• suggesting the Grand Final holiday is not a good idea as it is bad for businesses

• advocating for the public holiday

• Condemning the public holiday for its negative impact on businesses

Multiple Choice

Brett Hogan intends to

• impress upon the audience the harm public holidays cause to small businesses

• agree with Jeremy Venosta

• suggest we need to support the AFL

Multiple Choice

Which answer best supports writing about the two authors in the introduction

• Unlike Brett Hogan, Jeremy Venosta is in favour of an AFL Grand Final public holiday

• Similar to Brett Hogan, Venosta supports the AFL Grand Final Holiday.

Multiple Choice

Which answer is better at identifying the audience of Venosta's opinion piece?

• directing his article at the Australian public

• directing his opinion piece at Victorian families

Multiple Choice

Which expression better identifies the target audience of Hogan's article?

• Directing his arguments at small business owners and the hospitality industry

• targeting the AFL loving audience