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Question 1: Retrieval
Approaching and
answering Question 1
Question 1:
Retrieval
8 marks
15 minutes, including active reading
time
Make 4-5 relevant points
Youre not analysing language
Youre showing you fully understand
the text, using evidence (short,
embedded quotes) to prove it
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Purpose and
Audience
Now youre ready to write up
your ideas, think about the purpose of the
article, and who its audience might be. When writing
an introductory sentence to your answer, you can
mention these things.
For Question 1, likely purposes will be to inform (or to
make the reader aware), explain or describe.
Sometimes it may be clear that a text is aimed at a
particular group. If youre not sure about the
particular group, dont guess but simply mention the
reader / its readers (the articles readers) / or even
us.
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3
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Purpose and
Audience
Dont write things like this:
Text 1 aims to inform readers about the success of the
Mercury Music Prize, and also to entertain them and
make them think the Mercury Music Prize is a really
good thing. The audience are people who are in their
teens and 20s and who like music or are in bands
themselves.
Text 1 aims to tell readers about all the problems to
do with wind farms in the UK. Readers will be people
who are concerned about the environment and the
government and they will be shocked, sad and angry
when they read the article.
AVOID
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Purpose and
Audience
Do write things like this:
Text 1 aims to inform Guardian Music readers about
the success of the Mercury Music Prize.
Text 1 explains to Telegraph readers the reasons
behind the success of the businessman Zaki Badawi.
In this article Ben Leach explains issues and concerns
to do with wind farms to readers, perhaps especially
those concerned about the countryside or the
environment.
WRITE
3
. Write your clear, simple opening
sentence.
of the text.
word quotes.
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Connective
The text /
article
The
reader
(or we)
Firstly
Secondly
Thirdly
As well as
this
Furthermore
Moreover
Finally
Lastly
Argues
Describes
Emphasises
Explains
Highlights
Informs
Raises
Refers to
Reveals
Shows
Tells
Is made
aware
Is informed
Is told
Learns
Discovers
Realises