Paper 1 advice - Meanings and Representations
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Paper 1 Advice:
• Be disciplined about time
Q1 – 25 marks – 25 mins – only text A
Q2 – 25 marks – 25 mins – only text b
Q3 – 20 marks – 20 mins – similarities and differences
• HIGHLIGHTERS
• Underpinning it all is a focus on finding examples of language and describing them accurately
• Two texts will be linked by topic
• Introduction – FPA – smallest and most factual paragraph
• 5-6 paragraphs – focused on areas in each text that convey the clearest and most useful ideas
• Offer no conclusion for 1 and 2
• Frameworks, not theory
• There’s no point just picking a few words because you can label them with terms that you’ve learnt (“x is a determiner and y is a pronoun”); it’s vital to get to grips with language that means something and contributes to the overall meanings in each text
• Think about your language frameworks and your AO1 terms, making sure you are offering a good range across each text. AO1 is not just about grammatical labels (word classes, phrases, sentences, clauses, tense etc.), but also about things like semantic fields, patterns of meaning (contrast, antithesis and juxtaposition, for example), graphology, interaction patterns (especially in spoken texts or ones using features of spoken language), discourse structure, pragmatics and perhaps phonology too.
Questions to answer:
• What each text is about – the topic that they share
• What’s being said about that topic?
• What different views are being offered?
• What kinds of texts they are - genre
• The mode/s they are in – spoken, written, computer-mediated communication
• Their audiences and purposes
Most of this will be in the introduction.
These observations can help you sort out some useful starting points for your notes, which can then help you form the basis of your main paragraphs for each answer. Next, I’d suggest finding 5-6 ‘hotspots’ in each text. These are areas in each text that convey the clearest and most useful ideas.
These hotspots could be a single phrase, a section of the text (an image, a headline, the opening or closing lines), a sentence or even a pattern of language across the whole text.
These hotspots should mean something and, in some cases at least, represent the topic or views on the topic in a way that you can pull apart. There’s no point just picking a few words because you can label them with terms that you’ve learnt (“x is a determiner and y is a pronoun”); it’s vital to get to grips with language that means something and contributes to the overall meanings in each text.
Use a variety of frameworks for higher grades.
Paper 1 Advice:
• Be disciplined about time
Q1 – 25 marks – 25 mins – only text A
Q2 – 25 marks – 25 mins – only text b
Q3 – 20 marks – 20 mins – similarities and differences
• HIGHLIGHTERS
• Underpinning it all is a focus on finding examples of language and describing them accurately
• Two texts will be linked by topic
• Introduction – FPA – smallest and most factual paragraph
• 5-6 paragraphs – focused on areas in each text that convey the clearest and most useful ideas
• Offer no conclusion for 1 and 2
• Frameworks, not theory
• There’s no point just picking a few words because you can label them with terms that you’ve learnt (“x is a determiner and y is a pronoun”); it’s vital to get to grips with language that means something and contributes to the overall meanings in each text
• Think about your language frameworks and your AO1 terms, making sure you are offering a good range across each text. AO1 is not just about grammatical labels (word classes, phrases, sentences, clauses, tense etc.), but also about things like semantic fields, patterns of meaning (contrast, antithesis and juxtaposition, for example), graphology, interaction patterns (especially in spoken texts or ones using features of spoken language), discourse structure, pragmatics and perhaps phonology too.
•Academic register – keep your language formal.
•Use a variety of terminology – frameworks.
•GRAMPS – use examples.
•Politeness is used to model good behaviour (Mumsnet).
•Discourse community- ‘The high level of interactivity in the text is a valuable affordance for the producer in getting more members for Mumsnet (that will increase the value of the site) as it heightens the social value of the text, creating a discourse community.’
•Point, Evidence, Explain – You need quotes!!!!
•Meanings and Representations – use these words as often as possible.
•Use a variety of terminology – frameworks.
•GRAMPS – use examples.
•Politeness is used to model good behaviour (Mumsnet).
•Discourse community- ‘The high level of interactivity in the text is a valuable affordance for the producer in getting more members for Mumsnet (that will increase the value of the site) as it heightens the social value of the text, creating a discourse community.’
•Point, Evidence, Explain – You need quotes!!!!
•Meanings and Representations – use these words as often as possible.
Questions to answer:
• What each text is about – the topic that they share
• What’s being said about that topic?
• What different views are being offered?
• What kinds of texts they are - genre
• The mode/s they are in – spoken, written, computer-mediated communication
• Their audiences and purposes
Most of this will be in the introduction.
These observations can help you sort out some useful starting points for your notes, which can then help you form the basis of your main paragraphs for each answer. Next, I’d suggest finding 5-6 ‘hotspots’ in each text. These are areas in each text that convey the clearest and most useful ideas.
These hotspots could be a single phrase, a section of the text (an image, a headline, the opening or closing lines), a sentence or even a pattern of language across the whole text.
These hotspots should mean something and, in some cases at least, represent the topic or views on the topic in a way that you can pull apart. There’s no point just picking a few words because you can label them with terms that you’ve learnt (“x is a determiner and y is a pronoun”); it’s vital to get to grips with language that means something and contributes to the overall meanings in each text.
Use a variety of frameworks for higher grades.
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