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Unit 2: Language Issues and Original and Critical Writing (AS)
Quick questions on Original writing for genre, audience and purpose - WJEC A-Level English Language Unit 2
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What is model opening?Show answer
The bus coughs to a halt at the edge of the salt flats, and for a moment nobody moves. Then the doors hiss open and the heat arrives, thick and white, pressing against your face like a hand. Out there the ground is not ground at all but a vast cracked mirror, the horizon dissolving where the salt meets the sky, so that the few figures already walking on it seem to be wading through cloud.
What is inconsistent register?Show answer
A slip in formality or voice breaks the genre's illusion and is penalised.
What is q1?Show answer
Name the four frames a part (b) brief always specifies. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why should you write part (b) with the part (c) commentary in mind? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Write the opening of a piece of travel writing for a weekend magazine to engage an adult readership. [20 marks]
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