Quick questions on Creative re-casting: transforming a source text - WJEC A-Level English Language Unit 4

Each target genre has conventions you must adopt. A feature article needs an engaging opening, a developed body and a satisfying close, often with a human-interest angle and subheadings; a leaflet needs clear sections, headings and direct address; a speech needs rhetorical patterning and signposting for the ear; a radio script is written to be heard. Identify the conventions of the genre you are asked to produce and let them shape the piece.

As in Unit 2 original writing, the strongest re-casts are built from deliberate language choices: a chosen register, controlled sentence variety, well-judged structure and genre-appropriate features. Craft with intention, so the piece reads as a genuine example of the target genre and shows command of how texts are made for readers.

Every night, while the city sleeps, an army of foxes goes to work. We tend to picture wildlife somewhere far away, beyond the last streetlight, yet the most adaptable predator in Britain may be padding past your bins right now. This opening transforms a source of dry information into the conventions of a feature article for a general adult readership: it begins with an arresting hook rather than a fact, uses a human-relatable second-person address ("your bins") to draw the reader in, and reshapes the source's data into a narrative angle (urban wildlife on the doorstep).

Producing an essay when asked for a leaflet, or ignoring the conventions of the target genre, loses marks.

Failing to pitch the language for the new audience (too formal for teenagers, too casual for adults) weakens the transformation.

What is creative re-casting? [2 marks]

Why must you change register when you change audience? [2 marks]

Using the source material, re-cast the information as a magazine feature for a general adult readership. [20 marks]