VU22438 - Engage with a range of highly complex texts to participate in the community

    Unit code: VU22438 | Study level: TAFE
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    City Flinders
    Footscray Nicholson
    St Albans
    Sunshine
    Werribee
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    Overview

    This unit describes the skills and knowledge to interpret and critically evaluate and synthesise a range of highly complex paper and web based text types to participate in the community.  These include intricate, dense and extended texts including specialised contexts. Students at this level work autonomously and use and evaluate a broad range of support resources.

    Assessment

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    Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

    Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

    • apply a repertoire of reading strategies to interpret and critically evaluate structurally complex texts;
    • assess relevance of texts to own purposes and needs;
    • assess the validity of online information;
    • technology skills to access and navigate web based digital text to locate and assess highly complex texts, and;
    • planning and organising skills to gather, select and synthesise information effectively for own specific purposes/needs by defining information requirements both before and during research.

    Required reading

    The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

    As part of a course

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