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Writing Exam
A Guide
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Steps to Success• Choosing the correct question• Time management• Planning• Engaging the reader• Technical accuracy
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Types of questions• Personal experience (thoughts and
feelings)• Short story• Discursive• Functional
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Time Management• Seventy five minutes to choose, plan,
write and check an essay.• Five minutes- choosing a question• Five/ ten minutes – writing a plan• 50/55 minutes- writing your essay• Five / ten minutes- checking and
correcting
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Activity A• Choose an appropriate question• Create a plan for your essay• Ensure that it includes thoughts
and feelings, as well as at least one setting
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Describing Setting• Use the senses- touch, taste,
sound, sight, smell• Use imagery- simile, metaphor,
personification.• Use sound techniques-
onomatopoeia, alliteration.
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Activity• Highlight/ underline all references
to the senses in the extract you have been given.
• Find one example of each of the following: simile, personification, alliteration.
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Activity• Complete a senses chart for a
setting which features in your personal writing.
• Use this to write one or two paragraphs describing your setting.
• Include imagery and sound techniques
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Success Criteria• You have used at least three of the
senses• You have included at least one
example of imagery and one sound technique.
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Describe Thoughts and Feelings Fully• Describe your thoughts and
feelings in more detail • Explain why you were experiencing
these feelings
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• I felt sad.• I felt distraught.• I felt distraught because I would never see my
uncle again.• The realisation that I would never see my uncle
again made me feel distraught.• The sudden, sharp realisation that I would
never see my uncle again welled up inside me. I attempted not to cry, but this was as futile as a few sandbags guarding against a tsunami. Wave after wave of fear, upset, shock and confusion devastated me, leaving me completely distraught.
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• I was worried.• All the potential embarrassments,
awkward situations and outright terrors stomped relentlessly through my mind: what if I was late; what if I made mistakes; what if the office was populated by Rangers supporters; what if it even more tedious than a double period of Close Reading?
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Improve the following• I felt happy• I was excited• I was nervous• I was angry• I was upset• I was worried
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Activity• Take the most emotional part of
your experience• Write a paragraph explaining how
you felt and why• Use imagery to describe your
feelings
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A good introduction should . . .• Write down two things a good
introduction should do
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Introduction• Engage the reader• Give a clear idea of what your
essay will be about• Set the tone for your essay
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Paired Activity• Read the two introductions• Highlight anything which makes
them an effective introduction
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Solo Activity• Write your own introduction• Try to use language in a way which
will engage the reader
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Peer Assessment• Two positives• One area for improvement
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Vocabulary• Highlight all uses of the following
‘got’ ‘said’ ‘went’.• Rewrite any sentences which
include these words, using more descriptive verbs instead.
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Sentence Structure• Varied• Use punctuation for effect• Avoid starting all your sentences
with ‘I’
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• Use colons to introduce examples• My workplace resembled the aftermath of
a hurricane more than an office: papers were scattered everywhere; almost no floor-space was uncovered; there was even a couple of broken windows.
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• Use question marks to indicate uncertainty / confusion.
• How would I be able to find a suitable question in my Writing exam? How would I read the Close Reading passage without falling asleep? How do I answer link questions again?
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• Use long sentences to indicate a large amount / duration or length.
• The rest of the week seemed to drag on like an eternity. My days consisted of tedious and largely futile tasks: filling out forms; counting envelopes; struggling with the photocopier; filling out more forms; staring at the clock willing it to leap forward; taking calls about forms; filling out even more forms.
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• Use short sentences for emphasis / to suggest brevity /climax. Make sure that these still contain a verb and a subject.
• Here I was.
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• Rewrite the sentences below. Use more varied sentence structure.
• I was very worried when I arrived at my new school. I nervously tapped on the door. At first no-one replied and I was worried that I had arrived at the wrong place.
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Flows Through Good Linkage /Topic Sentences• Use these to connect the ideas in
your different paragraphs.• Use linking phrases: however,
although, as well as, also• Refer back to previous paragraph
and introduce idea of new.
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• Topic of previous paragraph: how I first became interested in being a lawyer .
• New paragraph: when I found out about the qualifications required.
• After that first interest in a legal career was ignited inside me, the next step was to discover what qualifications were required.
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• Topic of previous paragraph: Worries before first day of new school
• New paragraph: first day and how it was much better than expected
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Conclusion• Rounds off what you have been
saying• Contains reflection• Not simply a description of the last
part of what happened• Try to return to a phrase or image
from earlier in your essay
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• Look back on this experience- with all the added maturity and insight that a whole 24 more on this on this planet brings- I now understand why I was so frightened.