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Thursday 19 September 2019
How to Write a GUIDE
You may be required to create/write a GUIDE as part of your written requirement for Task & Test. It is important that you write to the specifications that designate your writing is a GUIDE.
Wednesday 12 September 2018
How to Recognise Purpose
Learn how to recognise purpose
To work out the purpose of a
text, you look at its:
• form and source
• content (sentence structure,
style and vocabulary)
• format (the way a text is
presented and structured).
Form and source
When you read a text the first
thing you notice is its form. For example, is it a book, a leaflet, a
web page?
The source of a text
(where it comes from) also gives you clues about purpose. For example, the
purpose of a government leaflet is to inform whereas a leaflet from your
local supermarket will be trying to persuade you to buy products.
Identify the THEME
How to Identify the THEME
A theme is a central or
underlying idea in literature, which may be stated directly or indirectly. All
novels, stories, poems, and other literary works have at least one theme running
through them. The writer may express insight about humanity or a
worldview through a theme.
Don’t confuse plot with
theme: While the plot is what
happens, the theme is the underlying
idea or message within a story.
The
plot is concrete occurrences within the narrative, but the theme can be more subtle
and even at times, implied. The theme can be harder to discern whereas the plot is
more obvious. In Romeo & Juliet, we see themes of love and hate that appear
throughout the plot.
Tuesday 11 September 2018
Author’s PURPOSE
Find an Author’s
PURPOSE
An author's purpose is the reason an author
decides to write about a specific topic; it’s the why behind why the author selected those
words in the first place. The author
must decide whether his purpose for writing is to inform, persuade, entertain, or
explain his ideas to the reader.
The
majority of author's purpose questions will come in multiple choice format. So you won't have to come up with the
reason for an author's behaviour. You'll just need to select the best
choice. Friday 6 July 2018
Capitalisation
Capitalisation:
Don’t Commit a Capital Crime
Over-capitalisation and under-capitalisation are crimes of a capital nature, and the punishment is
lack of readership. Generally, capital
letters signify proper nouns and proper adjectives, announce the start of a new
sentence, and begin quotations.
Here are thirty good rules:
Friday 23 March 2018
What does it mean by 'TONE' of a text?
Thursday 22 March 2018
How to Find the Author’s Purpose
Authors write for many different reasons.
Those reasons are called the author's purpose.
Depending on the purpose, authors may choose all different sorts of writing
formats, genres and vernacular.
A simple trick to summarise the three
main categories of author's purpose is to use the acronym PIE,
which stands for persuade, inform and entertain.
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