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level: Level 1 of Section 2 : Exploring text types

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level questions: Level 1 of Section 2 : Exploring text types

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Characterisation may include:- Physical appearance - Behaviour towards others - What a characters says - How others behave towards them - The location they are placed in - What we know - Circumstances of first and last appearance in text
Characterisation may include:- Physical appearance - Behaviour towards others - What a characters says - How others behave towards them - The location they are placed in - What we know - Circumstances of first and last appearance in text
Characterisation may include:- Physical appearance - Behaviour towards others - What a characters says - How others behave towards them - The location they are placed in - What we know - Circumstances of first and last appearance in text
Personal writing in diary form can allow reader to- see glimpse of writer's private thoughts and feelings - Explore reasons and motives behaving in particular way or feeling particular emotions - Witness characters and events from narrators pov
What are the key conventions of blogs?-Accessed online through websites, apps or well-known social media platforms -Vehicles for giving advice, selling / promoting ideas or products - Interactive features - Feature greater degree of audio / sound - Utilise specialised or technical lexis or jargon, where closely targeted to core interest -More informal and chatty and adress their audience directly
What are the key conventions of a autobiography or memoirs?- Written in first person - Focus on key dates/facts related to author's life - Describe significant places or setting in writers life - Often reflect on people who have been important to writer - Usually written in past tense, include current reflections
What are the key conventions of reviews?- Provide overview of experience - Convey writer's expertise or knowledge of field - Express opinion about the experience or material through the use of language, form and structure -Adopt informal, chatty language designed to engage with the reader - Make comparisons with related texts or performence
What are the conventions of commentary essays or articles?- tackle or explore ideas arising from newsworthy events or topical issues - Share similarities with text that argue or persuade, but may be more exploratory in nature - Demonstrate understanding about topic in question - Provide explanatory background information for 'non expert' reader - Presents ideas in present tense to explain current situation, may use past to fill in context detail - Usually written in first person, may bel ess personal than 'persuasive' texts.
What are some things to look out for in persuasive writing?- Specific language devices used by writers to persuade readers - Defferent types of evidence and how it is used (abused) - How the form and structure of it contribute to their effect - Targeted to particular
what are the key features and conventions of argumentative or discursive text?- Express a strong viewpoint but deal with both sides of an argument / explore obstacles/challenges - Use first person, using less personal, objective language - Use vivid imagery, anecdotes or examples to engage reader/ to provide background to the ideas being discussed. - Use varied sentence structure for developing an argument in logical progressive way. - Use discourage markers, such as adverbs, and other linking word/phrases to direct argument logically - Use rhetorical devices - Use statistics, data or other numerical measures to persuade reader - Use expert evidence to explain core ideas or argue a particular view.
What are the key features and conventions of effective narrative and descriptive text?- Compelling plot - Effectively establish characters who interest reader and whose voice or motives are believable and consistent - Include dialogue that advances plot or characterisation - Convey powerful or atmospherically one or two main settings relevant to the story - Sustain readers interest through vivid descriptions, a variety of sentences and/or paragraph structures and relevant linguistic devices, such as imagery - Use structure to surprise or create impact -Open and end in interesting or satisfying ways
Effective descriptive text will?- Vividly convey what a specific person, setting or experience is like rather than tell a story - Variety of sensory detail - Use language to 'zoom-in' or 'zoom-out' - Sentence or paragraph structure and organisation to convey different elements of a description - Well chosen lexis to be precise or expansive as text requires - Linquistic devices such as imagery / sound effects to convey mood or atmosphere.
An alternative, if related way of understanding narrative structure is William Labov's 6 core elements:1. Abstract- How does it begin 2. Orientation - Who/what is involve, and when/where? 3. Complicating action - Then what happened? 4.Resolution - What finally happened? 5. Evaluation - So what? 6. Coda - What does it all mean?
Characterisation may include:- Physical appearance - Behaviour towards others - What a characters says - How others behave towards them - The location they are placed in - What we know - Circumstances of first and last appearance in text