An A⁺ Grade sample response analysing the use of language for the topic

"Bridging the Generation Gap"

Background information
• Associate Professor George Roper delivered a lecture at a governmental education
  conference held in Canberra on June 2010. Roper has been a government advisor on
  educational policy since 2007.
• Ms Lee Berall-Edder was a principal for 18 years prior to becoming a government advisor
  on educational policy, a role she continued until her retirement in 2007.
• This article was written as an open letter published in The Daily News.

TASK
How is written and visual language used to attempt to persuade readers to share the point of view of
the writer of Bridging the Generation Gap?