Our Mastering the Craft of Writing in Standard English Student Book aims to improve students’ knowledge of writing as a craft and develop their confidence, control, and flexibility 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 Standard 11–12 Syllabus (2024).
This student book asks students to think about writing as a series of purposeful choices. Students explore how accomplished writers use form, structure, language, voice, perspective, style, and textual features to shape meaning for particular audiences, purposes, and contexts. Rather than simply identifying techniques, students learn to read as writers by considering what an author has done, why particular choices are effective, how those choices work together, and what they can learn from them for their own writing.
From there, students put this knowledge into practice. They experiment with craft choices such as imagery, point of view, characterisation, dialogue, rhetoric, anecdote, tone, symbolism, sentence structure, and reflective voice before applying these choices in sustained compositions of their own. 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 text has been chosen because it demonstrates distinctive and transferable possibilities for writing. Students examine a small number of significant authorial choices in each mentor text, explore how those choices work together, and then adapt the underlying craft principles to original writing of their own.
The mentor texts covered in this student book are:
‘The Wish’ by Roald Dahl
‘The Flowers’ by Alice Walker
‘Auld Lang Syne’ by John Green
‘The Magnitude of their Love was Extraordinary’ by Alice Pung
‘Racism and the Australian Dream’ by Stan Grant
‘The Danger of a Single Story’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘A Montage of Memories from the Country School Bus’ by Adelaide Greig
‘Mother Tongue’ by Amy Tan
With its combination of mentor-text study, explicit craft instruction, practical writing activities, exam-style practice, and comprehensive model responses, Mastering the Craft of Writing in Standard English gives students a flexible repertoire of skills they can apply confidently to school-based assessment tasks and the HSC examination.
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 174 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 42 4
Our Mastering the Craft of Writing in Standard English Student Book aims to improve students’ knowledge of writing as a craft and develop their confidence, control, and flexibility 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 Standard 11–12 Syllabus (2024).
This student book asks students to think about writing as a series of purposeful choices. Students explore how accomplished writers use form, structure, language, voice, perspective, style, and textual features to shape meaning for particular audiences, purposes, and contexts. Rather than simply identifying techniques, students learn to read as writers by considering what an author has done, why particular choices are effective, how those choices work together, and what they can learn from them for their own writing.
From there, students put this knowledge into practice. They experiment with craft choices such as imagery, point of view, characterisation, dialogue, rhetoric, anecdote, tone, symbolism, sentence structure, and reflective voice before applying these choices in sustained compositions of their own. 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 text has been chosen because it demonstrates distinctive and transferable possibilities for writing. Students examine a small number of significant authorial choices in each mentor text, explore how those choices work together, and then adapt the underlying craft principles to original writing of their own.
The mentor texts covered in this student book are:
‘The Wish’ by Roald Dahl
‘The Flowers’ by Alice Walker
‘Auld Lang Syne’ by John Green
‘The Magnitude of their Love was Extraordinary’ by Alice Pung
‘Racism and the Australian Dream’ by Stan Grant
‘The Danger of a Single Story’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘A Montage of Memories from the Country School Bus’ by Adelaide Greig
‘Mother Tongue’ by Amy Tan
With its combination of mentor-text study, explicit craft instruction, practical writing activities, exam-style practice, and comprehensive model responses, Mastering the Craft of Writing in Standard English gives students a flexible repertoire of skills they can apply confidently to school-based assessment tasks and the HSC examination.
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 174 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 42 4
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