Evaluate how successful a writer is…



Question 6Evaluate how successful a writer is…Question 6 on Paper 2 is the same skill you have practised on Paper 1 for Question 4. This question has the same amount of marks on this paper but you have slightly less time to respond to the question. You only have 15 minutes to decide if the writer of the nonfiction text is successful or not.Like with Paper 1, you will bring the skills from the language and structure question and you will adapt your response to say if the strategies used are successful or not at the given task/ approach.right21399500The command word in the question is “Evaluate”. The keyword in the question is “successfully”. The route to making sure you answer the question is to use the word successfully and words that mean the same throughout your response. Task 1: Look up the word successfully in the thesaurus. List down words that mean the same that you can use in your answer. You may need to look up the word success and adapt the words you find.The hope is that you will have an opinion about the way that the text is written. So, it is valid to say that something that the writer does is unsuccessful or the approach they take is invalid as it is to say that the text is clever and effective.right404495The human overpopulation was equally intense. There were at least three and often closer to six people to each room, in which the occupants slept, worked, had parties, ate, drank, sulked, wrote letters, cooked, smoked and hung out their washing. In Room 179, which Emily and I shared with Ira, a kind, velvety-eyed girl from a town in the Voronezh region, our belongings were thrust under the beds and into two thin, coffin-shaped cupboards by the door. The fridge chugged like an idling truck. The Voronezh-made television, which Ira turned on as soon as she woke up, crackled and buzzed. The brand-new orange wallpaper peeled gently away from the walls and the rug we bought from the Univermag gave off puffs of red and purple powder at every tread.0The human overpopulation was equally intense. There were at least three and often closer to six people to each room, in which the occupants slept, worked, had parties, ate, drank, sulked, wrote letters, cooked, smoked and hung out their washing. In Room 179, which Emily and I shared with Ira, a kind, velvety-eyed girl from a town in the Voronezh region, our belongings were thrust under the beds and into two thin, coffin-shaped cupboards by the door. The fridge chugged like an idling truck. The Voronezh-made television, which Ira turned on as soon as she woke up, crackled and buzzed. The brand-new orange wallpaper peeled gently away from the walls and the rug we bought from the Univermag gave off puffs of red and purple powder at every tread.Here is an extract from a piece of travel writing. Think: Do you think it is well written?right248475500Task 2: Highlight the text in green where you think the writer has done something effective. Highlight the text in red where you think something is ineffective.Label the choice in the part of the text that you have highlighted. Write in the margin some ideas about your opinion.Once you have gone through the article deciding what you think is well written, or not, you have all the material you need to answer Question 6. You have your idea about whether the writer is successful or not and words to help you state this from the thesaurus.You have a quotation from the text where you think the writer has done this well.You have named the language or structural technique that the writer has used in the part of the text you like.You have bullet points that explain your opinion.Your job now is to put these ideas into sentences. Ideally you will be able to write four different paragraphs using this information – with one quotation per paragraph.Task 3: Below are two paragraphs. One paragraph is a number of grades higher than the other paragraph. Spot the difference between the two paragraphs.Paragraph One:I like the way the writer has successfully used a list with “slept, worked, had parties, ate, drank, sulked, wrote letters, cooked, smoked and hung out their washing” to capture how crowded and busy the rooms were. There reason this is such a successful strategy is because the rooms sound cramped and that is a lot to get done in a small space.Paragraph Two:The writers use of a list in the phrase “slept, worked, had parties, ate, drank, sulked, wrote letters, cooked, smoked and hung out their washing” is an effective way of showing how the rooms were so crowded. The extent of the list is the reason for the success of this strategy, as the writer has purposely added many items. The use of the list in this way is partly comical, as the reader is amused by the idea of the variety of these activities and partly aware that this must have been an unpleasant environment to spend any time in. The use of the extensive list is a form of exaggeration, taking the idea of the crowded, over used space to an extreme.Paragraph 1 is good because:Paragraph 2 is good because:Paragraph 2 is the better paragraph because:The ingredients for a successful paragraph therefore are:Now, use these ingredients to write a paragraph about the extract that is as good or better than paragraph 2.CHECKLISTCan you find any of the following…?Settings – Where does it take place? Does this affect the reader? Does it create a mood? Give certain impressions of what will happen? People- Are there any main characters? What do they think and feel? How does this affect the reader?Ideas- What do you think about when reading this extract? Does it remind you of anything? Can you explain how this links to the question?Themes – Death? Love? Pain? Life? Anything else? Events – How do the events make the reader think and feel? What has happened? Why?Don’t forget to think deeply! If you can use at least three of these topic headings you’re on to a winner! ................
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