I will send my draft to you to fix and add more information that will need to fill. You are required to analyse this material and formulate a response in the genre of a feature article suitable for publication in The Weekend Australian. Your purpose is to share your deconstructed reading and evaluation with your audience positioning them to accept your response to a book.
You should include the following features and how they relate to Infidel:
~ the authors style,use of language and textual features
~ The effects that the personal and sociocultural influences and background of the subject has on the dominant discourses operating in the text. Discourses include gender,politics,war,family and religion.
~the process of selection at work in creating the text,aspects of life and life events that in your opinion are privileged or marginalised
~ what you consider to be the “gaps” and silences in the text and any omissions that detract from the overall impact of the life/story.
~The presence of multiple or shifting selves. i.e. The shifts in the depiction of the subject as she grows/develops and changes through the text.
~ possible alternative or resistance readings of the text of the subject your positioning by the author,your response as a reader to the text as a whole.
~ In Conclusion to your feature article summarise the aspects of the text that had the most significant impact upon you as a reader. Offer an overall evaluation of the text for your audience.
Note:
*Use present text throughout the text.
* don’t just base the article on her being against Muslim religion. Reflect and evaluate about what made Hirsi Ali so critical of Islam? her intelligence,education,experiences,etc…
* make more use of text evidence,directly(quotes) and indirectly. More reflection and evaluation(no the recount of the book).
* Be simple/direct not too academic vocabulary but simple yet clear English. Although use evaluative language choice throughout the article,make judgments and evaluate.
* The only book source is The Infidel Book by Ayyan Hirsi Ali,all sources must be web sources.
*no intext referencing.
*Evaluate the aspect/evidence. What are the audience positioned to think,react and feel.
*Keep topic sentence clear(aspect you will focus on in that paragraph) and try to make it evaluative. E.g discourses of race and family are used in text.
*makesure it’s the format is in a feature article form and pictures a big and relate to the topic.
