GCSE English Language_Non-Fiction_How to deal with the writing question

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How to deal with the writing question and how to get the 16 grades:

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Paper:  English/English Language ENG1H-AQA GCSE Mark Scheme 2012 January series 5 

Question: Write a letter which you hope will be published in your local newspaper. Inform readers what leisure facilities are available for young people and families in your area and explain how you think they could be improved. (16 marks)

You will get marks for Communication  so:

·         Communicate in a way which is convincing, and increasingly compelling, clear, and increasingly successful and there is clear identification with purpose and audience.

You will get marks for Form, content and style so make sure your letter :

• ·         is consistently matched to purpose and audience.

• ·         engage the reader with structure and development,

• ·         uses an increasingly wide range of integrated and complex details

• ·         is written in a formal way,          
• employs a tone that is appropriately serious but also ‘convincing’ manipulative, subtle and increasingly abstract ‘compelling’ 
• is serious and clear 
• ·         has increasing anticipation of reader response 
• ·          uses linguistic devices, such as the rhetorical question, hyperbole, lists and anecdote, as appropriate, irony and satire, in a consciously crafted way that is increasingly sustained 
• ·         shows control of extensive vocabulary, with word choices becoming increasingly ambitious 
• ·         shows evidence of a clear selection of vocabulary for effect, with increasing sophistication in word choice and phrasing 
• ·         engages and interests the reader .

You will get marks for Organisation of Ideas so make sure that you:

•   employ coherent paragraphs that are increasingly used to enhance meaning, for example, one sentence paragraphs, and increasingly integrated discursive markers and fluently linked paragraphs

• be inventive: use a variety of structural features , for example, direct address to reader, different paragraph lengths,  indented sections, dialogue, bullet points, and effectively present well thought out ideas in sentences

• use seamlessly integrated discursive markers 
•     present complex ideas in a coherent way.