RATIONALE WRITING

The rationale: ​the 200-300 word rationale precedes the

task and answers the following
1. To which part of the course and text/topic does your
task relate?
2. How does your task show understanding of a text or
topic that we studied in class? What specific
idea/moment/character are you exploring?
3. What is your purpose/message?
4. Which text type are you using?
5. Why are you using that text type/why is it
appropriate for the purpose/message/ audience?
6. How is your style appropriate to the text type
chosen?
7. How is your style appropriate for your audience?
8. How is your style appropriate for your
purpose/message?
9. Who ​is​ your audience?
10. If your task is making a change to an existing text
(time, style, plot), why is that change necessary or
logical?
11. What are the other important elements of context
that the examiner needs to know? Are you a certain
character, in a certain time, in a particular setting?
12. If you are creating a mass media text: where would
you expect the text to be “published” and why is
that logical for the text and topic?

Creative tasks may take the form of any text type

including, but not limited to, those listed below. The
creative task and the rationale must match in purpose, context, content and style in order for top marks to be
awarded. ​The structure and layout of the task should match the text type.

● Advertisement ● Magazine article

● Appeal ● Manifesto
● Biography ● Memoir
● Blog ● News report
● Brochure/leaflet ● Opinion column
● Cartoon/comic strip ● Parody/pastiche
● Chart/diagram/data ● Photographs
● Diary ● Radio broadcast
● Encyclopedia entry ● Screenplay
● Essay ● Song lyric
● Film/television ● Speech
● Instructions ● Text + tweet
● Interview Report ● Textbook
● Letter ● Travel writing