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A summary gives the main points of a passage in your own words, as briefly as possible. This section explains how to find the main points and write a short summary in point form. Seven numbered main…

Visual literacy is the skill of reading a picture, graph, cartoon or advertisement as a text: the image and its words, in context. The same skill is used to read advertisements and cartoons. Reading…

Critical language awareness (CLA) is not grammar. It is the skill of noticing how a text positions you: what it wants you to feel, believe, buy or accept. This section is a toolkit for reading…

This section explains how to analyse an advertisement, which combines pictures and words: a method for reading it, persuasive techniques, values, stereotypes, font, and the language it uses…

This section explains how to analyse a cartoon or comic strip, which combines pictures and words: read every frame, name the characters, tell speech from thought, read the punctuation and font in…