Imaginative Writing Craft
Overview
Two candidates write about the same evening in the same room and one of them is unreadable. The difference is almost never the idea. It is what happens at the level of the sentence: which noun was chosen, where the full stop landed, whether the reader was told a thing or shown it, and whether anybody proofread the result.
This note is the toolkit. Openings that start the reader in the right place, sensory detail that is precise rather than plentiful, control of time so that a minute can occupy a page, dialogue that carries weight, endings that stop rather than explain, and the unglamorous discipline of planning and proofreading under exam conditions. These techniques serve any imaginative task, narrative or descriptive, in Section B or in coursework.
Objectives
- Communicate effectively and imaginatively, adapting form, tone and register of writing for specific purposes and audiences
- Write clearly, using a range of vocabulary and sentence structures, with appropriate paragraphing and accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation
Lesson Note
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Lesson Evaluation
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- Which objective rewards adapting form, tone and register for specific purposes and audiences? A) AO1 B) AO2 C) AO4 D) AO5 Answer: C
- Two complete sentences joined by a comma is called: A) a fragment B) a comma splice C) an ellipsis D) a subordinate clause Answer: B
- Giving thirty seconds of story time a full page of text is best described as: A) summary B) ellipsis C) stretch D) tense drift Answer: C
- Which is the strongest way to show that a character is nervous? A) She was extremely nervous B) She said nervously C) She felt a wave of anxiety wash over her D) She had picked all the varnish off her left thumbnail and started on the next one Answer: D
- Replacing ordinary words with rarer ones from a thesaurus usually affects the mark how? A) Raises AO5 because it shows vocabulary range B) Raises AO4 because it shows ambition C) Lowers the mark, because register is broken and control is not demonstrated D) Makes no difference Answer: C
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