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Length: 1,200 words (+/- 10% and not counting bibliography) Due: in assignment boxes by 10 am on 7 May 2012 AND electronically through Turnitin (link on vUWS). Note: you can only submit the assignment once to Turnitin. Repeat submissions are not possible. The usual penalties for late work apply. The assignment must be your own individual work. Please familiarise yourself with the Universitys Academic Misconduct policy (see unit outline). Overview: Each of you has been randomly allocated a text (a double-page spread from one of the books we have been studying this semester). An image of your text appears below. All of the questions below refer to your textthe double page spreadunless otherwise specified. Your text for this assessment task is the double-page spread below from Look, A Book! (2003).
Look, A Book! Instructions: Locate your text in the relevant image so that you can view it full size. If you have any difficulty locating it, please contact me ASAP. Read through the information about this assessment task shown as below. Label your assignment with the name/or a description of your text. Type your answers. Set your answers out clearlynumber/label your answer to each question. For question 2, it may be easiest to use a photocopy/scan of your text. If you do this, please label the copy, Question 2. Please make sure that everything is clearly marked and labelled. You will only need to refer to the set readings for weeks 4-7. No additional research is necessary. If you can answer the question in a single word or a single sentence, this is fine. Some answers will require a longer response. Do not worry if you are under the word count. Do not define or explain terms. Show us that you know what concepts mean by applying them correctly.
Note: terms used in the questions (such as power, contact, demand, offer, attitude, involvement, vector) are used to convey the meaning that Kress and van Leeuwen assign to these terms, i.e. they are not used to convey their everyday or dictionary meanings.
work together to create meaning? In the double-page spread, is the image or written text doing the main work of conveying narrative actions or events? Explain your reasoning. 5. Based on your answer from question 3 and drawing on the Painter and reading and the Nodelman and Reimer reading (pp. 70-74), answer the following question (15 marksabout 200 words): How does your double-page spread text position the reader? Whose perspective/view of the world is shown in the images? Whose perspective/point of view is expressed in the linguistic/verbal text? Explain your reasoning.