Communication Creativity

How do writers ‘speak’ to Why do writers write?

readers through texts? Why do artists create?
To what extent is a text a How do writers make
vehicle for communicating creative choices to
a writer’s message? construct meaning?

Representation Some Perspective

How do texts offer readers
Can fiction represent reality?
How are characters ‘fair’ questions to new perspectives on life?
How can a character give us
representations of people?
spark your thinking a window into a world?

about the seven

key concepts
Identity Culture
To what extent is a text an To what extent is a text a
expression of a writer’s identity? product of culture or tradition?
Do readers like characters who How do texts and literary works
are thinly veiled versions express the values and
of themselves? beliefs of a society?
Transformation
How can the reading of a
text be transformative for
the reader? How can words
change the world?

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