Unit 1: Language that works
1 Taking care of business
2 Working it
Unit 2: Texts and human experiences
3 Mick Fanning, Connie Johnson and me
4 Oceans apart
Unit 3: Language that influences
5 Stand up
6 You can’t handle the truth
Unit 4: Representations and popular culture texts
7 Texts for the millennial
8 Pop culture from a sunburnt land
Sonja Goss is Head of Department for English at Burnside State High School and has been teaching since 1994. She has been on the Senior English panel and a QCS writing task marker since 2010. She is the author of the hugely popular title English Communication for the Queensland Senior English course, which has been superseded by Essential English.