Exam Practice: Paper 1, section B

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Exam Practice Paper 1, section B

• Writing to argue, persuade or advise

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Writing to Argue, persuade or advise

• Bristol has been criticised on your local radio
  station. Write a newspaper article for your local
  paper arguing that it is a good place to live in
  and to visit
• Write a visitors guide for teenagers persuading
  them to come to Bristol
• Write a letter to the headmaster giving him
  advice about what the students would like in
  their new school.

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PLAN

• Gather your ideas on a mind-map or use planning
  sheet
• Make links using topic sentences
• Sequence your ideas in the order you are going to
  write them, these will form the basis of your
  paragraphs
• Uses connectives to help youintroduction,
  firstly, conversely ,secondly, however,
  additionally, on the other hand, finally, whereas

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You should use some of the following.

• Argue, persuade, advise
• Rhetorical questions
• Direct questions
• Statistics
• Repetition of key words
• Emotive language
• Shock tactics

• Groups of 3
• Sentence structure for effect
• Show both sides of the argument
• Write in structured paragraphs

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Remember

• Use discourse markers to link your paragraphs by
  using connectives
• For example
• Introduction
• firstly
• conversely
• secondly
• however
• additionally
• on the other hand
• whereas
• Finally

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Remember

• To start your sentences in different ways
• See resources for different ways of starting
  sentence