Should We Get Rid of School Uniform? Persuasive Writing.

What this resource includes:

1. Mnemonic to remember rhetorical, persuasive techniques: MAD FATHERS CROCH
2. How to plan an answer
3. 9 skills necessary in a top answer
4. The mark scheme explained
5. Model answer
6. Model answer, annotated and explained
7. Why exam topics will never be interesting
8. Sample topics and question

Here is the beginning of the sample text:
Model Answer
So you want to get rid of school uniform. Perhaps Daddy and Mummy are rich, rich, rich and you want to show us all your designer gear, parading an endless range of just-off-the-shelf splendour and fashion to make your friends praise you and your rivals sick with envy.

Direct address, emotive language, anecdote, rule of three, contrasting pairs, metaphor. Creating an enemy.

Or perhaps you love lounging about at home in your sportswear, festooned with the right labels, hats and trainers still with their price tags proudly displayed, a sea of pristine white, kept shop-display neat.

Repetition, alliteration, anecdote, emotive language, metaphor. Creating an enemy.

Or perhaps you have other tribes: you are a Goth, an Emo, you’re indie, a hipster, you’re a dude, a dudette, a geek, a gangsta, or some other made up group you’re so desperate to belong to in your teenage years before adult life ‘ruins’ it all.

Hyperbole, repetition, direct address, rule of three, emotive language, metaphor, alliteration. The opening three paragraphs create an enemy through humour.