SAMPLE REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY OF LEAFLET: CAIE AS ENGLISH LANGUAGE (9093)

This resource contains a sample answer for the SHORTER WRITING TASK AND REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY question on Paper 2 of the CIE AS English Language (9093) syllabus. The text being analysed is:

**The Question being Answered is: **

Q1) Your local youth leader would like young people to learn about a range of hobbies and is aiming to produce a series of leaflets. The leaflets will be aimed at teenagers aged 13-19.

a) Write the text for a leaflet, explaining one of your hobbies. Use no more than 400 words. In your writing, explore what is enjoyable or productive about your hobby and why you think other young people would enjoy it. [15 Marks]

b) Write a reflective commentary on your text, explaining how your linguistic choices contribute to fulfilling the task set. [10 Marks]

THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:
ANALYSIS OF THE QUESTION
SAMPLE SHORTER WRITING TASK OF 400 WORDS
REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY OF 800 WORDS
REFLECTIVE CONCLUSION

Excerpt from the text analysis response:

Reflective Commentary
My text is a leaflet and my objective is to promote reading as an exciting hobby for teenagers in my locality. In have achieved this purpose by explaining the benefits of reading and using several linguistic and structural features such as colloquial language, imperatives and exclamatory sentences that would appeal to my audience and also make for a quick and easy read.

I start leaflet with the heading ‘Hobby Time!’ as this leaflet is one in a series of leaflet about hobbies. I follow this with the sub-heading ‘Reading’ to signal to my reader that this edition of the leaflet will focus on reading as a hobby.

In terms of structure, I have started with an introduction where I establish my overall point of view that reading is “enchanting and exciting” and has many benefits and then move on to the different sections where I elaborate on each benefit. This structure is followed so that the reader has a quick overwiw of the content from the introduction and knows what to expect in the rest of the leaflet. Moreover, the use of different thematic sections breaks….

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