Monday 28 January 2013

A2 LL - RECASTING QUESTION

Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs Eleanor Mills (Ed.)

Read the source material which follows and answer both questions:

Text A is from an article entitled [The Social Aspects of Birth Control] by [Emma Goldman]
It was first published in [Mother Earth, vol XI, no. 2]

You are [part of a fund raising team for a charity working in the developing world and have been asked to write a leaflet raising money for promoting birth control in developing countries. ]


Using the source material, write the [leaflet]
Your audience will consist of [general adult educated audience]
You should adapt the source material, using your own words as far as possible. You may want to update the references to make it a more contemporary article. Your [leaflet]
should be approximately 300 – 400 words in length.

In your adaptation you should:
• use language appropriately to address purpose and audience

• write accurately and coherently, applying relevant ideas and concepts.

(25 marks)

AND

Question 3

Write a commentary which explains the choices you made when writing your speech
commenting on the following:

• how language and form have been used to suit audience and purpose

• how vocabulary and other stylistic features have been used to shape meaning and
achieve particular effects.

You should aim to write about 150 – 250 words in this commentary.

(15 marks)