When teachers stress the importance of reading papers for language analysis, am I right in assuming that they're referring to the opinion section?
Apart from analysing the paper copies of Herald Sun and the Age, how else did everyone practise their language analysis skills?
As well as the opinion articles, I would recommend using letters to the editors to practise your language analysis skills. They are short and sharp, and are often full of a range of language devices inside of them. You can also look at letters of the same or similar issues and write a comparative essay on these.
Also, you can look at editorials. Whilst they don't have a particular author, they are an opinion: the opinion of the editors of the Newspapers, which means that they are intended to be persuasive. Don't think that online news opinion articles can't be good for language analysis - They can be really good ones too (I did a few Language Analysis online articles with my English tutor).
Other ways you can practise Language Analysis skills is to use stuff from commercial papers or previous year's examination. Whilst the expectation have changed due to the new study design, you should be able to meet these expectations despite that. ATAR Notes has a language analysis club that runs semi-regularly and have a few people posting there, and it is a great way to practise language analysis. (But I am not sure if it will be running next year) It could be in a different form next year too.
Anyways, good luck with it.
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