English Writing Mind Map
- Created on: 03-04-17 12:57
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- English Writing
- Context
- The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood
- The key to putting context to use is to find ways to imagine yourself in the situation of a real-world writer
- Audience
- The person for whom a writer writes
- Purpose
- The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic
- Writing Fiction
- USE THE SAME TENSE!!
- Timeline of Events: Hook, Character Introduction, Development, Turning Point, Resolution
- Paragraphing
- Start a new paragraph when:
- Moving to a different time, Changing Location, Bringing in a new idea, Introducing a new character, Starting a new piece of action, Starting dialogue
- Start a new paragraph when:
- Use similes, metaphors and THE SENSES
- Show, don't tell
- Vary sentence length
- Plan and Proofread
- Planning
- The most important, easiest and best way to breathe your ideas to life is to plan
- You can use a variety of planning ideas, different ones work for different people
- Mind Maps
- Flowcharts
- Bullet point list
- Table
- Plan what is going to happen in each paragraph: What is your purpose, context audience and ideas, who are your characters, where is it set???
- MAKE SURE TO PROOFREAD!! REMEMBER SPAG
- Organising Information and Ideas
- Pargraphs
- Signposting
- Linking Ideas
- Sentence structure and variety
- Literary Techniques
- Descriptive
- Metaphor - a descriptive technique that names a person, thing or action as something else.
- Persuasive
- Flattery - complimenting your audience.
- Opinion - a personal viewpoint often presented as if fact
- Hyperbole - exaggerated language used for effect.
- Personal pronouns - ‘I’, ‘you’ and ‘we’
- Imperative command - instructional language.
- Triples - three points to support an argument.
- Emotive language - vocabulary to make the audience/reader feel a particular emotion
- Statistics and figures - factual data used in a persuasive way
- Rhetorical question - a question which implies its own answer
- Descriptive
- Context
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