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Component 3: Creative and Critical Use of Language

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What genres can you write in for Component 3, and how do you master the conventions and craft of each?

Original writing genres and craft (Component 3): the range of forms (article, speech, narrative, travel writing, review, blog, letter), their conventions, and the craft of effective writing (structure, sentence variety, lexical precision, voice and rhetorical technique) within each (AO5).
The range of genres and the craft of effective writing for Eduqas A-Level English Language (A700) Component 3: the conventions of articles, speeches, narrative, travel writing, reviews, blogs and letters, and the techniques (structure, sentence variety, lexical precision, voice, rhetoric) that make original writing accomplished (AO5).
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How do you respond to a stimulus, adapting and recreating material into new forms, audiences and purposes?

Recreative and adaptive writing (Component 3): responding to a stimulus text or prompt, transforming material across forms, audiences and purposes (re-genre-ing), and making deliberate adaptive choices, the stimulus-driven dimension of the original writing (AO5).
How to respond to a stimulus and adapt material for Eduqas A-Level English Language (A700) Component 3: transforming a source across forms, audiences and purposes (re-genre-ing), making deliberate adaptive choices, and using the stimulus as a springboard rather than copying it (AO5).
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How is the Component 3 exam structured, and how do you manage two original pieces and a commentary under time?

The Component 3 exam (Creative and Critical Use of Language): the structure of the 1 hour 45 minute paper, producing two original writing pieces and one reflective commentary from the stimulus, the AO5 and AO1 to AO3 split, and how to plan and manage the time.
How the Eduqas A-Level English Language (A700) Component 3 exam works: the 1 hour 45 minute paper, producing two original writing pieces (AO5) and one reflective commentary (AO1 to AO3) from a stimulus, the mark split, and how to plan and manage the time under exam conditions.
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What is the Component 3 reflective commentary, and how do you analyse your own writing choices using linguistic frameworks?

The reflective commentary (Component 3): analysing your own original writing, explaining and justifying language choices using linguistic concepts and terminology, linking choices to audience, purpose and form, the critical (AO1, AO2 and AO3) counterpart to the creative writing.
How to write the Eduqas A-Level English Language (A700) Component 3 reflective commentary: analysing your own original writing, explaining and justifying language choices with linguistic concepts and terminology, and linking each choice to audience, purpose and form, the critical counterpart to the creative writing (AO1, AO2 and AO3).
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How do you write original pieces precisely targeted at a purpose and audience, and how do contextual factors shape every choice?

Writing for purpose and audience (Component 3): crafting original writing for a specified or chosen purpose, audience, form and context, controlling register, tone and structure, and making deliberate language choices, the foundation of the AO5 original writing.
How to write original pieces for a specified purpose and audience for Eduqas A-Level English Language (A700) Component 3: controlling form, register, tone and structure, making deliberate language choices, and shaping every decision to the audience, purpose, form and context (AO5), the foundation of the creative writing.
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