Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Content Requirements

Content requirements and exemplification for GCSE English Language Unit 3 part b: Producing creative texts (creative writing)
Candidates must complete two tasks. Each task must be taken from a different task bank.
• Work should be produced under formal supervision in time totalling up to 4 hours. The responses do not need to be of equal length. They do not have to be completed in the same session.

• The objective assessed in this part of Unit 3 is:

AO4 Writing

• Write to communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, using and adapting forms and selecting vocabulary appropriate to task and purpose in ways that engage the reader.

• Organise information and ideas into structured and sequenced sentences, paragraphs and whole texts, using a variety of linguistic and structural features to support cohesion and overall coherence.

• Use a range of sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate punctuation and spelling.