7.2.1 Intensive Reading

• Analysing the structure of an argument
• Identifying a writer's purpose and stance
• Tone and how it is created
• Distinguishing evidence from assertion in written text

• analyse the structure of a written argument
• identify a writer's stance and purpose
• describe tone and the language choices that create it
• evaluate the evidence a writer offers

“How do you tell what a writer wants you to think?”

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1. Analysing an argument
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Finding the claim, the reasons and the evidence underneath the prose.
2. Tone and stance
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Working out a writer's attitude, and the choices that reveal it.
3. Evidence or assertion?
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Telling a claim that can be pointed at from one that only sounds sure, in a sports argument.
4. Reading a sports column whole
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Mapping claim, reasons, evidence, tone and stance on one opinion piece so you can say what it wants of you.