Questioning assumptions and values: omissions, inclusions, emphases and marginalisations

What this note covers

1. What 'reflecting' asks of you in Unit 4
2. Assumptions: what the text needs you to already believe
3. Reading values from what a text rewards
4. Inclusions and emphases: the arithmetic of attention
5. Omissions: analysing what is not there
6. Marginalisation: present but subordinated
7. Doing this rigorously: context, evidence and your own position
8. How this is examined and what separates a top answer

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