General Knowledge
You only have this must amount of time to write for Paper 2.
What is 2 hours?
This is the information that shapes the way you need to respond to a question
What is a prompt?
This perspective makes the narrator look unreliable as the point of view associated with it only tells one side of the story.
What is 1st person perspective?
This type of writing has an exposition and a resolution and a well written plot line.
What is a narrative?
Question 1b of Paper 2 is know as this type of writing.
What is a reflective commentary?
a nonfictional type of text that communicates information between individuals or groups. An article is an example of it.
What is a transactional writing?
This point of view is a conversation that the narrator is having with the audience. The purpose is to make the audience part of the activity in the story.
What is 2nd person point of view.
This type of writing gives the audience a personal opinion about items, products and services. Sometimes the audience pays attention, sometimes it doesn't.
What is a review?
Question 1a and 1b are these in terms of requirement.
What is mandatory?
This is known as the ability of a writer to draw on widely varying ideas or use carefully chosen lexis to express meaning.
The purpose of Ms. Aleandre going over the information of Paper 2 with her students is so that they have a better idea of what they need to do for the test. This
What is instruct?
"Starting school later in the day has its benefits, but it can also have its detriments. Earlier school starts mean that the school day can end early, but it also means that students would have to get up earlier to go."
The above response is an example of this type of writing.
What is a discursive?
This question can either be a narrative, descriptive, discursive, review, critique or argumentative.
What is Question 2, 3 or 4?
When reading the prompt, you are being asked to do a specific task set by someone else.
What is a brief?
The purpose of using the five senses in writing.
What is to describe?
"The sun kissed the water with its warm rays. Dapples of sunlight sparkled like gold in the cozy summer morning. Dew drops sparkled like crystals on the points of the green rose-bush leaves and rose bud shyly turned its burnt orange head away from the sun."
The above is an example of this type of writing.
What is a descriptive?
What is extended writing?
This paragraph is the most important paragraph in a body of writing. It sets the tone for the rest of the writing.
What is the opening paragraph?
This narrator can be an inanimate object like a tree, an animal or the like.
What is an unusual narrator?
This type of writing involves specialized jargon, deals with businesses and is done by professionals. Their writing can make or break a business.
What is a critique?