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Creative Writing
Quick questions on The writing portfolio: SQA Advanced Higher English creative and discursive writing
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What are know the four marking areas?Show answer
The portfolio is marked on content and ideas, control of genre conventions, style and structure, and technical accuracy. A piece can be vivid in ideas yet weak in accuracy, or polished yet thin in ideas; the upper bands need strength in all four. Treat them as a checklist when you draft and redraft.
What is q1?Show answer
Name the four areas the portfolio is marked on. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why do purpose and audience matter so much in the portfolio? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
What does Advanced Higher expect beyond competence? [1 mark]
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