Critical Literacy II Week 6

Text title: Kiwi Battle Field, ‘EL Alamein’ first page

Text type: Book

Text Creator: Ron Palenski

Text purpose: to inform and read

Date: 2011

Why is the text written in the way it is?

This book is about the battles which have involved New Zealand. The El Alamein chapter is informing us of how the battle had taken place. What the key points were, who was involved and how the battle had taken place. 

This text is written this way because it is an informative book. The chapter is written in detail about what people had thought was going to happen and later on how it actually happened. It has different quotes from those involved as evidence to what people had thought. This text is written with a simple format to make the information easier to understand and keep up with. 

What views of the world and values does the author assume the reader holds? How do we know?

This text is about an event which had taken place during WWI and is mostly about how New Zealand was involved in it. The author would assume that those reading this will have an open world view, those who don't judge people off of their race, culture or religion.

This assumption would be made since people who read texts like this would be wanting to learn more about what happened during WWII or would be wanting to answer questions about the topic.