English / Level 9 / Language / Text structure and organisation
Content description
Understand how punctuation is used along with layout and font variations in constructing texts for different audiences and purposes
Elaborations
experimenting with the use of colons and semicolons in expositions and other extended writing to improve precision and clarity of expression
investigating instances of colons and semicolons in expository texts and discuss their uses in elaborating on and clarifying ideas in complex sentences