The grammar and rhetoric underneath good writing: how sentences work and how an argument is built.
These are the statements the English Year 7 syllabus makes about Language and Argument. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Simple, compound and complex sentences - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Cohesion and connectives - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Connotation and word choice - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Ethos, pathos and logos - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Building an argument - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Counterargument and rebuttal - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Selecting and using evidence - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Tone and register - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Preparing a spoken argument - Language and Argument, Year 7.
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Language and Argument are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones English Year 7 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Language and Argument is module 3 of 3 in English Year 7. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses English Year 7 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.