Literacy

In this subject, students extend and apply their literacy capability by, for example:

• identifying, critiquing, and critically extracting information from a range of sources including online, written, oral, data, and visual
• articulating and communicating ideas and proposing solutions using supporting materials and evidence
• analysing, justifying, and presenting reasoned arguments
• drawing conclusions and defending positions
• decoding the language of law
• cultivating and using specialised and appropriate legal terminology and discourse
• using a variety of language conventions
• enhancing legal research skills and sourcing authoritative materials
• analysing different perspectives to consider context, relevance, purpose, bias, accuracy, and reliability
• using a variety of skills and language conventions to demonstrate thinking, knowledge, and understanding
• presenting material in a range of formats and text types including ICTs
• appropriately acknowledging sources.