Writing

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Writing

• All depends upon
• purpose and audience

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Voice

• Exam Essay formal, third person
• E.g. It can be seen Therefore
• Creative writing your choice of voice and
  style.

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Audience

• AS level explain your terms and use them
• A2 assume examiners knowledge of terms and go
  straight to using them in analysis

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Notes

• New topic, try sub-
• dividing the page.
• Once the main area is filled in, find the time to
  go back and read through using the smaller column
  to identify content.
• This creates a set of notes that can be re-used
  for different essays and revision.

Summarise Flag up Put into ones own words Topic title Keyword Notes in lesson or from source here
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Six Box Plana little formula to get you
startedLook at your notes and decide what
should be placed in each box
Introduction Para 1 Para 2
Para 3 Para 4 Conclusion
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Spidergramshelp identify and sequence relevant
material
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Use your own wordsImportant to practice
articulating ideas in your own wordsfor use in
exams, discussions, interviews

• Read about the item in two different sources
  what are they telling you?
• Summarise in your own sentence.
• Each writer will explain things slightly
  differently which one does it best? Take the
  best parts from each and bring together in your
  own paragraph.

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Exam Essay

• Introduction
• Paragraph structure
• PEE Point, Evidence and Explain
• A Level SEXiER Statement, Evidence, Explain,
  Extend and Relate to question.
• Statement and Evidence Description
• Explain etc. Analysis
• Analysis marks higher grade

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Argument

• Basic structure Block your evidence and
  explanations into two sections for and against
  the proposal.
• Advanced structure Theme
• Organise your evidence by topic so that for and
  against items on the same aspect are interlaced.
• Assess importance of each theme in relation to
  the question.

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Exam Essay continued

• Conclusion
• Summarise your answer to the question. Do not
  introduce new material.
• Bibliography
• Referencing is explained in detail in the
  powerpoint How to reference on the library page
  of the school website.

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Subjects StructuresEach subject has its own
writing structure

• E.g. Economics concise, prescribed
• Define terms
• Evidence with graph/diagram
• Evaluation
• Have you figured out the structure for each of
  your A level subjects?
• If not, ask the teacher to discuss this
• with the class.