EAL is harder than I thought it would be....

[Alter]

Visual language is included. Say for example you have a comparative analysis with 3 different texts (an article, a letter to the editor, and a cartoon) and the letter to the editor and cartoon have contradictory contentions about an issue, you'll want to bring this up and explain it through your analysis.

[literally lauren]

Thanks for clarifying all that.

Do the three points for lang analysis include or exclude the visuals?

My understanding is that you don't have to mention the visuals in the note form summary, but you can if you want to. (You may want to check with your teacher about this, since I'm going off second-hand knowledge here.)

You have to mention them in the actual analysis/essay though. The instructions say to write about 'how written and visual language is used to persuade' so if you don't talk about the image at all, then you're essentially ignoring part of the instructions.

Generally you want to let the spread of your analysis reflect the spread of the information, meaning that if you're given a page and a half of one big written text, and then two visuals that take up the other half-page, roughly 3/4 of your analysis will be spent on the text, and 1/4 on the visuals - this is really flexible though. It can help to plan out your approach (eg. if you get one really small image and one very big/dense one, then you should try to spend more time on the latter) but it's not like the assessors will be counting the ratio or anything