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Text types, explored

The 2018 Subject Guide provides a large list of text types, and these are organised into three broad categories: personal, professional and mass media ... although, as might be expected, there is some overlap between these categories: e.g. the 'blog' appears in all three categories. So which should we select to teach? The recommended general approach to text types is summed up in the following paragraph in the...

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