EXAM PAPERS

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MISS J, SAMUEL

Other Exam problems

Remember this section also requires a 500-word essay: introduction, body, and conclusion.  Commenting: Some of you did not comment on the strategies during the exam.

Do not just identify the strategy, give 2 examples, and move on to another.

         Ensure you explain the effectiveness of the strategies.

         Do they provide the reader with a better understanding of the concept by allowing the readers to identifysomething they are familiar with?

       For the campaign strategies under the section Speaking and Writing,

use 1 point per paragraph; explain the strategy, why it would be effective, then move on.

It is not quantity but quality (3-4 points are good enough)

If you have extra strategies, you can list them in a sentence AFTER you explain the major strategies.

     Difference between Organisational Strategies and Language Techniques

All of these can also be called devices but:

Organizational strategies: the strategies used to layout of the essay.

-Does the writer start with a definition then use several illustrations?

-Is cause and effect the dominant strategy being used in the extract?

-Does the writer explain the causes in the first 2 paragraphs then go on to explain the effects in the remaining paragraphs?

-Does the writer present the problems and then offers solutions?

-Does he first deal with the counterargument?
-Does he use a lot of emotional appeal?

 -How does the writer present/organise his points? What strategies did he use?

     Language Techniques: when the writer uses language in a non-literal way like: simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, repetition, and personification.

How are they effective? Well many of the times they provide readers with a better understanding by allowing them to hear in their mind and see in their mind.

For example, repetition is used for emphasis. It allows the reader to understand the importance of something.

Read the 2011 and 2012 postings on this blog. (Look to your right!)

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Composing Essays: The Conclusion

 

Can you identify the error(s) in this conclusion?

Despite the error(s), does it look like a good conclusion?

Notice the author indents before beginning the conclusion.

Based on the conclusion, what discourse type was used in this essay?

What was the dominant device/strategy?

Justify your answers.

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Compsoing Essays: The Body

 

Now this is also known as the meat of the essay.

Here is where you will pick up the majority of your marks.

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Composing Essays: The Intro

 

Take note of how an essay should be written.

While marking exam scripts, several of you did not follow essay-construction guidelines.

If you continue to ignore these guidelines you will fail the exam.

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Revision: Argument

By Argument we mean having the power to  persuade the reader into convincing that your point of view is correct . 

 A young lady presented this argument by first showing the 'miraculous event we call giving birth'.

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Revision: Narration

Some say this is the easiest of the bunch but let's not be fooled, it could be hard if we don't apply ourselves. So let's practice people. Ensure you know the following:

--Purpose of narration (to relate an event about eg. a woman who is struggling to deal with the loss of her son...)

--Elements/devices of narration (PAD)

--Theme: main or overall idea of the story (the disintegration of the family, death, love (Specify!--What about love? What about death?)

--How to summarize a narrative:
   State theme/what the story is about
   What happens in the beginning (exposition)
   What leads to the climax (rising action)
   What happens during the climax
   What happens immediately after the climax(falling action)
    How the story ends (resolution)

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