Persuasive writing in science takes many forms, including analysing, evaluating and drawing conclusions. Persuasive writing is the genre of power. Learn how to teach your students to write powerfully and persuasively science.

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Engaging in writing

    • Peter Freebody - literacy across the curriculum

    • Persuasive writing task

    • Why Writing in science?
  • 2

    Language and knowledge

    • Language and knowledge

    • What are genres?

    • Identify the genre
  • 3

    Persuasive texts in science

    • Instructing

    • Expositions

    • What is modality?

    • Modality

    • Nominalisation

    • Nominalisation example

    • Nominalisation example solution

    • Nominalisation - editing a text

    • Nominalisation - editing exercise 2

    • Conjunctions

    • Persuasive writing in science
  • 4

    Analysis of student writing

    • SOLO Analysis of Liver Transplants

    • Liver transplants - Cycles

    • Liver transplants - SOLO

    • Liver transplants short SOLO
  • 5

    The ALARM matrix

    • The ALARM matrix

    • Wurdi Youang

    • Stage 5 Chemical World writing task

    • Evaluate the benefits and problems associated with medical OR industrial uses of nuclear energy

    • Biology - Beadle and Tatum

    • Chemistry - Ozone depletion

    • Physics - AC generation
  • 6

    Historical narratives

    • What do children's stories and HSC Physics have in common?

    • Historical narratives in Stage 5 science

    • Evaluate the contribution of Newton to our understanding of the universe…

    • Syllabus opportuities
  • 7

    My writing task

    • My Writing task
  • 8

    Resources

    • Resources

About the instructor

Curriculum and assessment advisor

Jim Sturgiss

Jim is an educational researcher and independent educational consultant. A recipient of the NSW PTC Distinguished Service Award for leadership in delivering targeted professional learning to teachers, he works with schools to align assessment, reporting and learning practice. He has been a DoE Senior Assessment Advisor where he developed many statewide assessments, (ESSA, SNAP, ELLA, BST) and as Coordinator: Analytics where he developed reports to schools for statewide assessments and NAPLAN.

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