| Characterisation may include: | - Physical appearance
- Behaviour towards others
- What a characters says
- How others behave towards them
- The location they are placed in
- What we know
- Circumstances of first and last appearance in text |
| Characterisation may include: | - Physical appearance
- Behaviour towards others
- What a characters says
- How others behave towards them
- The location they are placed in
- What we know
- Circumstances of first and last appearance in text |
| Characterisation may include: | - Physical appearance
- Behaviour towards others
- What a characters says
- How others behave towards them
- The location they are placed in
- What we know
- Circumstances of first and last appearance in text |
| Personal writing in diary form can allow reader to | - see glimpse of writer's private thoughts and feelings
- Explore reasons and motives behaving in particular way or feeling particular emotions
- Witness characters and events from narrators pov |
| What are the key conventions of blogs? | -Accessed online through websites, apps or well-known social media platforms
-Vehicles for giving advice, selling / promoting ideas or products
- Interactive features
- Feature greater degree of audio / sound
- Utilise specialised or technical lexis or jargon, where closely targeted to core interest
-More informal and chatty and adress their audience directly |
| What are the key conventions of a autobiography or memoirs? | - Written in first person
- Focus on key dates/facts related to author's life
- Describe significant places or setting in writers life
- Often reflect on people who have been important to writer
- Usually written in past tense, include current reflections |
| What are the key conventions of reviews? | - Provide overview of experience
- Convey writer's expertise or knowledge of field
- Express opinion about the experience or material through the use of language, form and structure
-Adopt informal, chatty language designed to engage with the reader
- Make comparisons with related texts or performence |
| What are the conventions of commentary essays or articles? | - tackle or explore ideas arising from newsworthy events or topical issues
- Share similarities with text that argue or persuade, but may be more exploratory in nature
- Demonstrate understanding about topic in question
- Provide explanatory background information for 'non expert' reader
- Presents ideas in present tense to explain current situation, may use past to fill in context detail
- Usually written in first person, may bel ess personal than 'persuasive' texts. |
| What are some things to look out for in persuasive writing? | - Specific language devices used by writers to persuade readers
- Defferent types of evidence and how it is used (abused)
- How the form and structure of it contribute to their effect
- Targeted to particular |
| what are the key features and conventions of argumentative or discursive text? | - Express a strong viewpoint but deal with both sides of an argument / explore obstacles/challenges
- Use first person, using less personal, objective language
- Use vivid imagery, anecdotes or examples to engage reader/ to provide background to the ideas being discussed.
- Use varied sentence structure for developing an argument in logical progressive way.
- Use discourage markers, such as adverbs, and other linking word/phrases to direct argument logically
- Use rhetorical devices
- Use statistics, data or other numerical measures to persuade reader
- Use expert evidence to explain core ideas or argue a particular view. |
| What are the key features and conventions of effective narrative and descriptive text? | - Compelling plot
- Effectively establish characters who interest reader and whose voice or motives are believable and consistent
- Include dialogue that advances plot or characterisation
- Convey powerful or atmospherically one or two main settings relevant to the story
- Sustain readers interest through vivid descriptions, a variety of sentences and/or paragraph structures and relevant linguistic devices, such as imagery
- Use structure to surprise or create impact
-Open and end in interesting or satisfying ways |
| Effective descriptive text will? | - Vividly convey what a specific person, setting or experience is like rather than tell a story
- Variety of sensory detail
- Use language to 'zoom-in' or 'zoom-out'
- Sentence or paragraph structure and organisation to convey different elements of a description
- Well chosen lexis to be precise or expansive as text requires
- Linquistic devices such as imagery / sound effects to convey mood or atmosphere. |
| An alternative, if related way of understanding narrative structure is William Labov's 6 core elements: | 1. Abstract- How does it begin
2. Orientation - Who/what is involve, and when/where?
3. Complicating action - Then what happened?
4.Resolution - What finally happened?
5. Evaluation - So what?
6. Coda - What does it all mean? |
| Characterisation may include: | - Physical appearance
- Behaviour towards others
- What a characters says
- How others behave towards them
- The location they are placed in
- What we know
- Circumstances of first and last appearance in text |
