AQA · English Language · 8700
GCSE English Language: Writing
Scope of study · AQA GCSE English Language (8700), specification point 3.1.2. Cards are generated from the exam board's own specification for "Writing", and every card links back to the page it came from. Specification © AQA — used with attribution.
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Which three factors should guide a writer's choice of vocabulary, grammar, form and structure?
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Audience, purpose and context.
Which three rhetorical devices does AQA name as examples for writing for impact?
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Rhetorical questions, antithesis and parenthesis.
Rhetorical questions, antithesis and parenthesis are examples of ?.
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rhetorical devices
In writing for impact, what three things should a writer do with facts, ideas and key points?
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Select, organise and emphasise them.
Which two qualities must be maintained across a whole text in clear and coherent writing?
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Coherence and consistency.
What kind of impact on the reader does 'writing for impact' aim to create, beyond clarity?
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Emotional impact.
Besides describing, narrating, explaining and instructing, name two further AQA GCSE writing purposes.
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To give and respond to information, and to argue.
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