Writing Skills
• Full range of punctuation used accurately, not as an afterthought, but as an integral part of the writing
• Paragraphing for effect, including one sentence/ one word paragraphs
• Full range of sentence structures, remembering that simple sentences and minor sentences can be just as effective as complex sentences.
Language
• Consistent, ambitious vocabulary for effect (avoiding repetition unless for effect)
• Higher level extended language devices used effectively with no clichés- these won’t keep you ‘as cool as a cucumber’. You should add complexity rather than complicatedness, you should add sophistication rather than slang, you should add panache rather than pathetic, overused, worn out phrases. (e.g. extended metaphor, symbolism, hyperbole, irony and satire)
• Cohesive devices (e.g. discursive markers, clear use of pronouns to avoid ambiguity)
• Shaping the text to clarify, but sometimes mystify. (This comes with planning your writing.)
• Purposely crafted writing with flair, subtlety and conscious awareness of audience, text type and purpose.
• Creates a sense of personal voice that is consistent throughout with an appropriate tone
• Use Standard English (even if its 4 ur m8s, ur bein testd on English, innit)
Reading Skills
• Be confident in your analytical skills (if you believe what you’re saying, the examiner will as well)
• Understand the explicit and implicit meanings of texts
• Embedding of short, well-selected quotations
• Well- developed inferences and tease out the associations and connotations
• Analyse at text level, sentence level and word level
• Make structural inferences wherever possible
• Use high level technical terms, but don’t have a tick-list mentality
• Makes tentative rather than firm statements- exploring rather than stating ideas (e.g. perhaps, possibly, could, may, potentially, maybe)
• Give alternative interpretations wherever possible
• For question 2, make perceptive comments about images and headlines; link these comments to the text
• For question 4, focus on comparison and cross- referencing of language between the two texts
READ THE QUESTIONS PROPERLY!
Develop an A* vocabulary - how many of these words do you know?
For examples please go to www.whsteamenglish.edublogs.org
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