EXTENDED WRITING

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• EXTENDED WRITING

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The Golden Rules

• Read the Question carefully
• Plan your answer
• Structure your answer
• Focus your introduction
• Use diagrams, maps etc
• Exemplify
• Leave time for an effective conclusion

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So what makes a top band answer

• 1. Detail with good understanding and knowledge
• 2. Ideas developed effectively especially
  cause-effect
• 3. Examples/data/evidence are clearly integrated
  into the answer
• 4. Effective use of geographical terminology
• 5. An effective use of written communication
  often supported with maps or diagrams

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Read the Question

• Be relevant answer the question set

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Read the Question

• First read and analyze the question dont
  ignore sections

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Plan your answer

• Brief plan spider diagram
• Dont spend too long or write too much
• If run out of time it is looked at/marked

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Structure your answer

• Use paragraphs mnemonics to structure your answer
• E.g Factors influencing land use
• PHYSICAL CRDVDS
• ECONOMIC CLDTS
• SOCIAL HISER
• POLITICAL - LQTSP

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Focus your introduction

• Dont
• In this essay I (1) am going to discuss (2)the
  way that development of a river basin can bring
  problems and benefits to an area. I have chosen
  the missippi (3) which is the major river in
  America (4) to show the impact of such
  developments.

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Focus your introduction

• Developments in river basins can bring a variety
  of impacts some positive others negative, some
  planned others accidental. (1) River basins vary
  in scale (2) from local such as the Cuckmere in
  Sussex to the almost continental scale of the
  Mississippi (3) in North America. Impacts may
  vary both over time and may be viewed differently
  by various groups in the community.(4)

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Use diagrams, maps etc

• It saves words/time
• It shows spatial/locational aspects
• Keep them simple dont try to draw Sydney
  exactly
• Do them quite large it is easier to read larger
  diagrams and they look neater
• Only use colours if it helps and remember certain
  colours mean something in Geography
• Number them as Figs and refer to them in the
  writing

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Exemplify

• Avoid the e.g. Africa
• Spell it correctly e.g. Missipi
• Locate it e.g. Thames in Britain
• Local small scale are often better
• Not too much detail

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Time

• Look at the marks usually 1 mark 1min
• Dont over run stop (go back at the end)
• If run out of time do notes
• Try to get a conclusion regardless
• Dont try to con the examiner

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Conclude

• Go back to the title
• The answer may vary with
•       Level of Development
•       Time
•       Location (e.g coast v inland, highland v
  lowland)
•        Scale (local v regional)
• or between groups or aspects (e.g. Social v
  environmental)

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AND

• ALLOW TIME TO CHECK YOUR ANSWER.