📖 NCEA Level 3

English

The two external essays: a written-text response and a visual/oral-text response.

9 Standards 35 Total credits 3 Externals · 12 cr 0/9 Reviewed

Achievement standards

External · 12 credits

AS 91472 Respond critically to studied written text(s) Written-text essay: critical, evidence-supported response to studied text(s). External 4 credits AS 91473 Respond critically to studied visual or oral text(s) Visual-text essay: Inception / Interstellar; evidence-supported critical response. External 4 credits AS 91474 Respond critically to unfamiliar written texts through close reading Close reading of two unseen texts: the four aspects, then the comparison. External 4 credits

Internal · 23 credits

AS 91475 Produce a selection of fluent and coherent writing Two crafted pieces to publication standard: purpose, audience, drafting. Internal 6 credits AS 91476 Create and deliver a fluent and coherent oral text Create AND deliver: structure for the ear, and the delivery marks. Internal 3 credits AS 91477 Create a fluent and coherent visual text Verbal and visual language integrated into a striking whole. Internal 3 credits AS 91478 Respond critically to significant connections across texts The connections essay: linking several texts around one idea, with evidence. Internal 4 credits AS 91479 Develop an informed understanding of literature and/or language using critical texts A hypothesis, critical texts used as positions to test, and your own reading. Internal 4 credits AS 91480 Respond critically to visual/oral text(s) through close reading Close reading of a short visual/oral extract: unpacking a few minutes in depth. Internal 3 credits

Where this leads in business & finance

Ask anyone senior in business what actually separates people at the top and they will say communication. Building an argument from evidence, structuring it, and making someone believe it is precisely what an investment memo, a consulting deck, a pitch to a board or a legal submission is. Warren Buffett has said learning to write and speak clearly is the single skill that most increased his value. The close-reading muscle matters too: the ability to notice how a company's annual report is framing bad news is the same skill you use on a Nolan film.

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