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Explore how a pivotal life event shaped your emotions and personal growth. Reflect on the event's influence, effects, and significance, providing detailed reasons that are sequenced logically for readers. Conclude with a reflection on personal transformation. Use a lively, shaped, and consciously crafted narrative to convey your message effectively.
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Writing to Explain • Range of responses to why? • Range of responses to how? • Give reasons • Detailed • Sequenced logically • Reflection in conclusion • Link points
Typical Questions • Write about a significant event in your life and explain how it has affected you. • Choose a person who has played an important part in your life. Explain how this person has been important to you. Write about the pressures of being in Year 11 as the examinations get closer. Explain how this has affected you – your social life, your working day, your sleep…
What do these terms mean in practice? • Clear sense of audience: All material is clearly directed at a specific audience • Lively: Interesting, sophisticated vocabulary • Shaped: Planned order, especially start and finish. Discourse markers to show how writing moves on to new point • Consciously crafted: Evidence you’ve thought about word choice and use a variety of techniques • Variety: In sentence length, vocabulary, punctuation • …for effect… meaning you’ve thought about what you want the result to be for the reader, how you want to make them feel, and you’ve chosen words and sentences to help you do this.