Writing Articles And Reviews
Overview
Section B hands you a brief and nothing else. No source text, no extract to borrow from, no material except what you can invent in forty five minutes. That is the whole difficulty and the whole opportunity: 45 marks, exactly half the paper, awarded for a piece of writing that did not exist when you sat down.
This note covers two of the six transactional forms the specification names: the article for a magazine or newspaper, and the review. They share an engine, which is a point of view, and they differ in what they owe the reader. You will learn how to find an angle in ninety seconds, how to open without wasting a paragraph, how to invent detail that sounds researched, and how to end a review with a verdict somebody could act on.
Objectives
- Develop transactional writing skills for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Write articles for a magazine or newspaper
- Write reviews
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- How are the 45 marks of Section B divided between the assessment objectives? A) AO4 18 and AO5 27 B) AO4 27 and AO5 18 C) AO1 22 and AO4 23 D) AO4 22 and AO5 23 Answer: B
- Which of these is NOT one of the transactional text types named by the specification? A) A review B) A guide C) A short story D) The text of a leaflet Answer: C
- What is the angle of an article? A) The topic the article is about B) The single arguable point the article exists to make, usually a step sideways from the obvious position C) The headline D) The balance of advantages and disadvantages Answer: B
- A review ends by saying the subject has good points and bad points and that it will be interesting to see how it develops. What is the main problem? A) It is too short B) It uses the first person C) It declines to deliver the verdict that is the purpose of the form D) It contains no quotations Answer: C
- In a forty five minute Section B answer, roughly how long should be spent planning and proofreading in total? A) None; every minute should be spent writing B) About two minutes C) About twelve minutes, split five at the start and seven at the end D) About twenty five minutes Answer: C
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