What (exactly) are you trying to say?

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Help, tips and assistance for students. This blog is part of a range specifically for students and can be found, along with others, under Student GCSE Blogs.

When writing how do you make the best choices? Hopefully, this blog may help you! I’m going to use this image:

AQA Section B: Writing You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section.

I will do other posts on how to plan/a whole narrative piece. This blog will show you how to pick the best words/sentences etc. I apologise again for the differences in colour but hopefully they will help you:

• Blue – a possible choice
• Red – synonyms and alternatives
• Grey/black – my thoughts/explanation for choices

If I begin with a verb (-ing) I start my piece in the middle of some type of action

• Looking (gazing, staring, leering, glancing) at me (this is a ‘clause’ it doesn’t make…

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Evaluating (you know the tough one)!

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Help, tips and assistance for students. This blog is part of a range specifically for students and can be found, along with others, under Student GCSE Blogs.

Paper 1 Q4 is an evaluation question, you have to meet this objective: AO4 Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.

This is a SAMPLE question…

The first thing you need to remember is this is an evaluative question and requires a personal response from you the ‘reader’.

Evaluation is defined as “the making of a judgement about the value of something”.

• You are being tested on your ability to evaluate how effective a text is.
• This means you must write about the methods (techniques) a writer uses to create an effective text and are those effects successful?
• Try to analyse patterns of words e.g. the writer uses [strong verbs] to show….

Let’s look at an extract:

Here’s a ‘sample’…

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