A2 LL - 3 WAY COMPARISON - FEEDBACK ON PARENTS QUESTION
- Adopt a formal academic register in your answer.
- Be concise and detailed in your answer.
- Use a wide range of literary, linguistic and spoken terms
- Avoid long quotations - only quote a word or a phrase.
- If you use quotations you must comment on them in detail by referring specifically to audience, purpose, genre, topic and attitudes to the topic.
- Do this by identifying language features, making comparative points to other texts and comment on the effects on an audience / reader.
- Avoid repeating the same point again and again
- Avoid description.
- Concentrate on analysis.
- Be careful if you decide to analyse a text chronologically. This can very easily become descriptive
- Use the introduction to introduce audience, purpose, genre, topic and attitude to the topic of each text.
- Avoid quotations in the introduction
- List a range of the literary, linguistic and spoken terms used in your commentary
- You are not required to make value judgements or consider how well a writer or speaker has addressed the topic. Assume the writer or speaker has done this well.
