Advice For Paper 1

• [ ] Make sure you know the difference in the forms and styles of writing which may appear in advertisements, brochures, leaflets, editorials, news stories, articles, reviews, blogs, investigative journalism, letters, podcasts, (auto)biographies, travel writing, diaries, essays, scripted speech, narrative writing, and descriptive writing.
• [ ] Make sure you understand exactly what is required by the directed writing task in response to a text (10 marks).
• [ ] Make sure you can use language to compare the form, structure and language of your own response in part (a) with that of the original text (15 marks).
• [ ] Make sure you know how much of your own handwriting corresponds to the word count Question 1(a), which is 150-200 words. This is only a small word count, so don’t waste valuable words, and don’t make your response too brief!