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Base your article on the lecture you have read in the passage,
but be careful to use your own words. Address each of the bullet
points.
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Table A, Writing:
Use the following table to give a mark out of 15 for Writing.
Band 1 1315 Consistent sense of audience; authoritative and appropriate style. Fluent,
varied sentences; wide range of vocabulary. Strong sense of structure,
paragraphing and sequence. Spelling, punctuation and grammar almost
always accurate.
Band 2 1012 Sense of audience mostly secure; there is evidence of style and fluency;
sentences and vocabulary are effective. Secure overall structure; mostly
well-sequenced. Spelling, punctuation and grammar generally accurate.
Band 2 78 Some evidence of evaluation, engaging with a few of the main points with
success. Uses reading material to support the argument. Occasionally
effective development of ideas from the passages.
Band 4 34 Selects points from the passages rather literally and/or uses the material
thinly. Points should be connected.
Band 5 12 Parts of the response are relevant, though the material may be repeated or
used inappropriately.
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Write about 350 to 450 words on one of the following questions.
Answer on this Question Paper.
Descriptive Writing
OR
OR
Narrative Writing
OR
Use table A to give a mark out of 13 for content and structure, and table B to
give a mark out of 12 for style and accuracy.
Table A, Composition: Content and structure
Specific criteria
General criteria
Descriptive Writing Narrative Writing
W1: Content is complex, sophisticated Many well-defined and developed ideas The plot is convincing with elements
and realistic. and images create a convincing, original, of fiction such as description,
Band 1 1113 W2: Overall structure is secure and the overall picture with varieties of focus. characterisation and climax, and
constituent parts well balanced and with cogent detail.
carefully managed.
W1: Content develops some interesting Frequent, well-chosen images and details The plot incorporates some
and realistic features in parts of the give an impression of reality, although the interesting features, but not
Band 2 910 writing. overall picture is not consistent. consistently so: the reader may be
W2: Writing is orderly, and beginnings aware of the creation of suspense
and endings are satisfactorily managed. and a sense of climax.
W1: Content is straightforward with ideas, A selection of relevant ideas, images and The plot is straightforward and
features and images that satisfactorily details addresses the task, even where cohesive with some identification of
address the task; some opportunities for there is a tendency to write a narrative. features such as character and
Band 3 78
development are taken. setting.
W2: Overall structure is competent and
some sentences are well sequenced.
W1: Content consists of relevant ideas The task is addressed with a series of Recording of relevant but
that are briefly developed. ordinary details, which may be more typical sometimes unrealistic events
Band 4 56 W2: Overall structure is easily followed, of a narrative. outweighs other desirable elements
though some constituent parts are too of narrative fiction.
long or too short to be effective.
W1: Content is simple, and the Where a narrative is written, the recording The plot is a simple narrative that
presentation of ideas and events may of events may preclude the use of sufficient may consist of events that are only
only be partially credible. descriptive detail. partially credible or which are
Band 5 34
W2: Overall structure is recognizable presented with partial clarity.
though paragraphing is inconsistent and
sequences of sentences insecure.
Specific criteria
General criteria
Descriptive Writing Narrative Writing
Band 6 12 W1: Content is inconsistent in relevance, Some relevant facts are identified, but the The plot lacks coherence and
interest and clarity. overall picture is unclear and lacks narrates events indiscriminately.
W2: Structure is frequently unclear, development.
revealing a limited grasp of purpose.
Band 7 0 W1: Content is rarely relevant and there Individual ideas are not properly The plot is hard to follow and is only
is little material. communicated and the effect is one of partially relevant.
W2: The structure is disorderly. incoherence.
Table B, Composition: Style and accuracy
Band 2 910 W3: Obvious attempt to use range of vocabulary to interest the reader.
W4: Partial or inferred sense of audience, with appropriate sentence
structures.
W5: Spelling, punctuation and grammar mainly accurate.
Writing is clear and accurate in places, and uses limited vocabulary and
grammatical structures; errors occasionally serious.