Paper 2: Writers' viewpoints and perspectives
4 dot points across 1 inquiry question. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.
How do you read two unseen non-fiction texts from different times, draw ideas together, compare perspectives and write to argue a viewpoint?
- Analysing how a writer uses language in a non-fiction text to achieve effects (AO2), including persuasive and rhetorical devices, tone and word choice in one named text.
How to answer the AO2 language question on AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2: analysing how a writer of non-fiction uses language, including rhetorical and persuasive devices, tone and word choice, to influence the reader of one named text.
8 min answer → - Comparing writers' ideas and perspectives and how these are conveyed across two non-fiction texts (AO3), including identifying viewpoint, methods and the integrated comparison structure.
How to answer the AO3 comparison question on AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2: identifying each writer's viewpoint, comparing how they convey it through method, and writing an integrated, idea-led comparison across two unseen non-fiction texts.
9 min answer → - Selecting and synthesising evidence and ideas from two non-fiction texts (AO1), including the true-or-false retrieval question and the question that summarises differences across both texts.
How to answer the AO1 reading questions on AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2: handling the true-or-false retrieval question and the synthesis question that draws inferences about differences across two unseen non-fiction texts.
8 min answer → - Writing non-fiction to present a point of view for the Paper 2 Section B task (AO5 and AO6), including matching form, audience and purpose, building an argument and using rhetorical devices and accuracy.
How to tackle the non-fiction writing task on AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 Section B: matching form, audience and purpose, structuring a persuasive argument, deploying rhetorical devices for AO5, and securing the 16 accuracy marks for AO6.
9 min answer →