Writing to Inform and Explain

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, grade 6
6. Model answer, grade 9
7. Model answer, annotated and explained
8. Why exam topics will never be interesting
9. Sample topics and question

Here is the beginning of the model text:
Annotated 100% Model: Writing to Inform
Every actor wants to be Tom Cruise, and every actress longs to be Jenifer Lawrence. So why settle for Danny Dyer and Letitia Dean?
1. Contrasting pair
2. Rhetorical question
3. Alliteration
You wouldn’t, and you shouldn’t. It’s exactly the same thing with revision guides. Yes, they come with pretty pictures, and jokes, and everything is chunk sized so that it fits a single page.

1. Emotive language
2. Repetition
3. Triplets
4. Creating an enemy
   But do they push you, pull you, and propel you to get a grade 8 or 9?
5. Alliteration
6. Contrast
7. Triplet
   You’ve spotted that’s a rhetorical question, but do you know the other 14 rhetorical devices?
8. Direct address
9. Contrasting pair
10. Rhetorical question
    Mr Salles won’t just list them: by the time you finish his guide, you will know them by heart. Fact.
11. Contrasting pair
12. Direct address
13. Opinion
    Mr Salles believes that all students can ace the English language exam; that every student can learn from beyond grade 9 answers that are properly explained; that every student can remember if they are shown how.
14. Emotive language
15. Triplet
16. Repetition