English Writing Mind Map

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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
      • 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

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