English Language Paper 2 - Writer's views and perspectives

[8 marks, 8 mins]

Question 2 - summary of differences between source A and source B

For a perceptive summary, you need to:

• make perceptive inferences from both texts
• make references to text relevant to the focus of the question (short quotes)
• make statements that show perceptive differences between texts

Remember:

• to write 3-4 differences
• you don't need to use subject terminology
• you don't need to refer to the effect on the reader
• conclude with a final sentence explaining why there are differences (time period and how attitudes/life changes

[12 marks, 12 mins]

Question 3 - refers to the writer's use of language.

For detailed, perceptive analysis, you need to:

• analyse the effects of the writer's choice of language on the reader
• select relevant quotations
• make sophisticated and accurate use of subject terminology

Subject terminology such as:

• rhetorical questions
• direct address - 'you'
• including the reader - 'we' 'us'
• statistics
• hyperbolic language
• colloquial (informal)/sophisticated register
• tone: angry, sarcastic, ironic, humourous

[16 marks, 20 minutes]

Question 4 - refers to the writer's differing ideas and perspectives, and how they're conveyed

For a perceptive, detailed response, you need to:

• compare ideas and perspectives in a perceptive way
• analyse how writer's methods are used (subject terminology)
• select a range of relevant quotations from both texts to support points
• show a detailed understanding of the different ideas and perspectives in both texts

Remember:

• to write about 3 different ideas/attitudes
• to say why they feel this way
• to say how their feelings are conveyed (language, structure)
• write a concluding sentence explaining why their attitudes differ (time period)
• you don't need to refer to the effect on the reader

[40 marks, 5 mins planning, 30 mins writing, 5 mins checking]

Question 5 - writing to argue

Include:

• clever introduction, e.g. pun, irony, direct address, quotation
• facts/statistics
• anecdote
• analogy
• simile/metaphor
• collective 'we/our'
• rule of three
• emotive languauge
• cyclical structure
• rhetorical question
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• ambitious vocabulary
• 4 - 5 paragraphs