(7/2) What on earth is CITCAT???

When talking CITCAT we are talking INTRODUCTIONS. CITCAT is essentially a checklist of everything you need to demonstrate when writing an introduction.

Introductions

In an introduction you are being assessed on the following 5 skills.

• Do you understand the issue and its context?

• Can you identify the text and its details?
• Can you demonstrate an understanding and analyse the authors contention?

• Do you understand and can you communicate the author’s intended audience
• Can you identify the author’s tone and how it might affect the intended audience?

So how does CITCAT relate?

CITCAT is a check list of these skills and provides a way to remember what you need to demonstrate in your INTRODUCTION.

Context and the Issue

T-Text Details

C-Contention

A-Audience

T-Tone and its effect on the intended reader

Lastly…

This is the key to high level responses and greater complexity…

• It is important that you are demonstrating an understanding of the article and the issue. Show me that you understand the issue and what the author’s opinion and writing tone is.      
• Remember you are not showing me that you can read or hold an opinion on the article or issue.
• You shouldn’t simply mention CITCAT you need to SHOW AN UNDERSTANDING of CITCAT as well. You are showing a mastery of your skill in identification and analysis.

Just a little note: CITCAT should only be discussed once in a LA essay, in the introduction: remember you are introducing your understanding of the article and your only introduce once!!!