Paper 1 section b-Writing to presuade

Getting a higher grade

If you follow all of the previous advice, then you should have the following:

• a plan
• the purpose and audience
• a good structure made up of several main points
• varied sentence beginnings
• technical accuracy (punctuation and spelling)

To get a high grade, you'll need to use the following techniques:

• Tense - a persuasive letter is normally written in the simple present tense, eg "As Chair of the Friends of Gnashley High School, I am writing to ask you..."
• Linking language - use logical conjunctions such as therefore, furthermore, because etc.
• Clarity -…