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I/GCSE English: Writing skills

writing to persuade, argue and advise

· igcse english,english,writing,persuade,agrue

Key tips for writing to persuade, argue and advise

In IGCSE English, key tips are

  • Genre
  • Audience
  • Purpose

Writing to argue

Introduction must summarise the issues that you are yet to write about.

  • In IGCSE English, put at least three reasons for your argument forward.
  • Counter argument?
  • Evidence in your argument such as: statistics, stories, quotes from authorities.
  • Rhetorical questions
  • Varied sentence structure
  • Emotive language
  • Good opposing connectives, e.g  
    • On the other hand                                                      
    • Firstly/Secondly/etc.
    • However
    • Nevertheless
    • Despite the view
    • Research states that
    • Another factor to be considered
       
  • Ending must conclude your own view  and must summarise

Writing to persuade

In IGCSE English, Unlike when writing to argue the arguments can be far more :

  • One sided 
  • Passionate
  • More like a personal conviction (you hold the belief that your views are the RIGHT views)

Examiners love:

  • Emotional anecdotes (brief personal story that serves its purpose to create a powerful illustration about why your view is the right view) MAKE IT UP!!!!! 
  • Give yourself and your opponent a common goal-this way your job of persuading them doesn't become too much hard work.
  • shows sustained awareness of the audience
  • Arguments are convincingly developed and supported by relevant detail
  • Ideas are selected and prioritised to construct a sophisticated argument
  • Paragraphs are effectively varied in length and structure
  • A wide range of appropriate, ambitious vocabulary is used
  • The writing flows and is made coherent through the use of connectives
  • Rhetorical devices, such as:
  • Rhetorical question
  • Emotive language-imagine being cast out into the street, cold, lonely and frightened
  • Parallel structures
  • Sound patterns- alliteration, assonance (fine,time) 
  • Contrast-sometimes we have to be cruel to be kind 
  • Description and Imagery-metaphor, personification and simile)
  • The ‘rule of three-I ask you, is this fair, is it right, is it just?
  • Repetition-Evil minds will use evil means.
  • Hyperbole-using exaggeration for effect

Writing to advise

Purpose:
To provide interesting and informative guidance on a topic specified in the exam question.

  •  In IGCSE English, to do so in a way that is suited to a specified type of audience.
  • to show you know the conventions of the form required, e.g. a letter or an article.
  • Whatever form your writing takes - letter, article, speech - you will be expected to establish, quickly, a rapport, i.e. a good relationship, with your reader or audience. You can use several techniques to do this.
  • Make it clear that the problem you are advising on is current, real, relevant and worthy of consideration.
  • 'I worry about my appearance, you worry about your appearance - we all worry about our appearance. Each time we pick up a magazine we are faced with images of perfect faces, perfect bodies, perfect everything. What can we do to regain a sense of perspective, a sense of reality - a sense of self-control?'
  • Explain the problem to show why it's happening.
  • If appropriate to your audience, use informal, even chatty, English to create a friendly empathic tone.
  • Make suggestions that are genuinely achievable and helpful.
  • Address the reader directly as 'you' and use the 'inclusive "we"' to make it personal and to include yourself in the problem.
  • Give reasons why the advice is worth taking or what the consequences could be.
  • In IGCSE English, Refer to outside sources of reliable advice such as specialists or university research (make this up for the exam - this isn't a test of your knowledge of the subject but of your writing skills).

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