Author: Dwayne Hopwood

Published: 2009

Publisher: Nelson Cengage Learning

Format: Paperback

Pages: 200

Suitable: Senior Secondary English

Nelson Belonging: A Text for Senior English Students is designed to support students working on the NSW HSC Area of Study Belonging, which is set for the first time for the NSW HSC examination in 2009. It guides students through the requirements of the course, helps them to unpack the concept of belonging and to explore the relationship between the concept and their own lives. It provides support for students examination of the way the concept is represented in the set texts and helps them find and evaluate related texts, with an emphasis on developing students ability to consider how choice of language modes, forms, features and structures can shape and is shaped by the concept.

Additional support can be found on this website by clicking on Student resources in the right-hand column of this page.

The text is supported by website material which includes additional background notes, further passages for analysis and annotated weblinks to direct students' own research.