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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Introductory
Former School/College
Unit aim
This discipline unit provides students with opportunities to build personal literacy, as well as the knowledge and skills to apply this in professional settings. Content topics will cover: literacy; professional literacy, and academic literacy.
Unit content
Topic 1: Language and standards
- Nature and role of English as a language of communication for participation in society, through reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing experiences, ideas and values
- Study of the English language and how it is manipulated to meet higher-order social, aesthetic and cultural literacy demands
- Children’s language, and metacognition of language-learning
Topic 2: Literacy across various content areas – Writing
- Social purpose of texts
- Genre approaches
- Explicit construction and support
Topic 3: Literacy across various content areas – Reading
- Accessibility
- Modifications to readability
- Shared, guided and independent strategies
Topic 4: Professional Literacy – Reading
- Professional articles
- Policy documents
- Media presentations
Topic 5: Professional Literacy – Listening
- Whole-workplace announcements
- Client interviews
- Media presentations
Topic 6: Professional Literacy – Writing
- Report texts
- Newsletter texts
- Incident report texts
Topic 7: Professional Literacy – Speaking
- Whole-workplace announcements
- Staff meeting contributions
- Community events
Topic 8: Academic Literacy – Reading
- Evaluation skills
- Reading for a purpose
- Note-taking skills
- Referencing of notes
Topic 9: Academic Literacy – Writing
- Text structure
- Use of referenced points
- Paragraph structure
- Coherence of response
Topic 10: Review of Language, Grammar, and ICT
- Spelling and ICT
- Grammar and ICT
- Plagiarism and ICT
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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1 | demonstrate personal literacy competence to the high standard required for professional practice | |||||||
2 | analyse a range of texts for their text structure and language features | |||||||
3 | create a range of texts for a professional context | |||||||
4 | compose short responses displaying academic writing principles. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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demonstrate personal literacy competence to the high standard required for professional practice
- GA6:
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analyse a range of texts for their text structure and language features
- GA1:
- GA6:
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create a range of texts for a professional context
- GA6:
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compose short responses displaying academic writing principles.
- GA1:
- GA6: