Our Mastering the Craft of Writing in Advanced English Student Book aims to deepen students’ understanding of writing as a craft and develop their confidence, control, precision, and versatility as writers of imaginative, discursive, persuasive, and reflective texts. It has been designed specifically to fulfil the requirements of The Craft of Writing focus area in the new NSW English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024).
This student book encourages students to read as both critical readers and writers. Students explore how accomplished writers make purposeful and often complex choices about form, structure, language, voice, perspective, style, and textual features to develop ideas, evoke emotion, shape perspectives, challenge assumptions, and create distinctive aesthetic experiences. Rather than simply identifying techniques, students consider how authorial choices interact across a whole text and what they can learn from these choices for their own writing.
From there, students put this knowledge into practice. They experiment with craft choices such as narrative voice, perspective, imagery, motif, allusion, characterisation, rhetoric, dialogue, tone, structure, and syntax before combining these choices in sustained compositions of their own. Students are also encouraged to adapt, combine, and challenge conventions when this serves their purpose, audience, context, and ideas.
Activities guide students through the complete writing process:
reading → noticing → analysing → experimenting → composing → reflecting → refining
Eight carefully selected mentor texts form the centre of the student book: two imaginative, two discursive, two persuasive, and two reflective texts. Each has been chosen because it demonstrates distinctive possibilities for shaping complex ideas and experiences through language. Students examine significant authorial choices, evaluate how those choices work together, and then adapt the underlying craft principles in original writing of their own.
The mentor texts covered in this student book are:
‘Cell One’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘Everyday Use’ by Alice Walker
‘Joy’ by Zadie Smith
‘Recovering a Narrative of Place: Stories in the Time of Climate Change’ by Tony Birch
‘Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech’ by William Faulkner
‘The Work You Do, The Person You Are’ by Toni Morrison
‘An Ogmore Story’ by Melinda Mann
‘Once More to the Lake’ by E. B. White
With its combination of close mentor-text study, explicit craft instruction, experimentation, sustained composition, reflection, exam-style practice, and model responses, Mastering the Craft of Writing in Advanced English helps students develop the flexible and sophisticated repertoire of skills needed to respond confidently to school-based assessment tasks and the HSC examination.
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 200 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 44 8
Our Mastering the Craft of Writing in Advanced English Student Book aims to deepen students’ understanding of writing as a craft and develop their confidence, control, precision, and versatility as writers of imaginative, discursive, persuasive, and reflective texts. It has been designed specifically to fulfil the requirements of The Craft of Writing focus area in the new NSW English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024).
This student book encourages students to read as both critical readers and writers. Students explore how accomplished writers make purposeful and often complex choices about form, structure, language, voice, perspective, style, and textual features to develop ideas, evoke emotion, shape perspectives, challenge assumptions, and create distinctive aesthetic experiences. Rather than simply identifying techniques, students consider how authorial choices interact across a whole text and what they can learn from these choices for their own writing.
From there, students put this knowledge into practice. They experiment with craft choices such as narrative voice, perspective, imagery, motif, allusion, characterisation, rhetoric, dialogue, tone, structure, and syntax before combining these choices in sustained compositions of their own. Students are also encouraged to adapt, combine, and challenge conventions when this serves their purpose, audience, context, and ideas.
Activities guide students through the complete writing process:
reading → noticing → analysing → experimenting → composing → reflecting → refining
Eight carefully selected mentor texts form the centre of the student book: two imaginative, two discursive, two persuasive, and two reflective texts. Each has been chosen because it demonstrates distinctive possibilities for shaping complex ideas and experiences through language. Students examine significant authorial choices, evaluate how those choices work together, and then adapt the underlying craft principles in original writing of their own.
The mentor texts covered in this student book are:
‘Cell One’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘Everyday Use’ by Alice Walker
‘Joy’ by Zadie Smith
‘Recovering a Narrative of Place: Stories in the Time of Climate Change’ by Tony Birch
‘Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech’ by William Faulkner
‘The Work You Do, The Person You Are’ by Toni Morrison
‘An Ogmore Story’ by Melinda Mann
‘Once More to the Lake’ by E. B. White
With its combination of close mentor-text study, explicit craft instruction, experimentation, sustained composition, reflection, exam-style practice, and model responses, Mastering the Craft of Writing in Advanced English helps students develop the flexible and sophisticated repertoire of skills needed to respond confidently to school-based assessment tasks and the HSC examination.
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 200 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 44 8
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