Transactional Writing

Transactional Writing

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Tips

• Always know how your text will end what you want to include
• Have a strong, convincing opening and ending
• Always plan before you begin writing

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Questions Style

Write a letter to X, applying for a position as Y

Write an article for a newspaper, exploring X

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You must identify the PAF of the text you have been asked to write

Purpose

Audience

Form

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The question is testing your ability to adapt your writing for different purposes and different audiences

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The question will be marked for SPaG

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Use the three bullet points within the question to help plan and structure the writing

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New ideas, topics, people, places need new paragraphs

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Headings and subheadings are allowed, if it is appropriate, to help you organise your work

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Techniques for Transactional Writing

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• Rhetorical questions
• Emotive language
• Rule of three
• Repetition
• Modal verbs
• Antithesis
• Opinion
• Lists
• Connectives to link ideas
• Hyperbole
• Headings and subheadings
• Facts
• Statistics
• Experts opinions
• quotes , if you are able to remember them
• Historical information
• Personal pronouns
• Direct address
• Subject-specific terminology
• Figurative language
• Inclusive language
• Anecdotes
• Juxtaposition
• DO NOT USE A CONFRONTATIONAL TONE IN A FORMAL LETTER

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Review

Reviewing writing tends to be a piece of writing in which you offer your personal opinion

To demonstrate how much you do know about a topic, you will need to support your points with valid reasons

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A review focuses on strengths and weaknesses, uses evidence to support ideas, draws a conclusion, saying whether something will be useful for, or interesting to , its audience and purpose and gives personal opinion with a confident and authoritative tone

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What makes a successful review?

• Opens in a lively way in order to state the writer’s opinion
• Use of direct address
• Use of rhetorical question aimed at the reader in order to engage the reader
• Alliteration emphasises a key phrase or point
• References. This allows the reader to understand the author more especially if you reference past well known works of the author
• Metaphors have the ability to emphasise the writer's feelings, whether that feeling is negative or positive.
• Use standard english and mainly formal language, only using a few informal choices where appropriate#
• Use a mix of sentence types and lengths to make it more interesting to read
• Use generally straightforward everyday vocabulary with some subject-specific specialist words
• AVOID SPEAKING LIKE A WALKING THESAURUS AS THAT MAY MAKE THE WORK SEEM INTIMIDATING AND BORING
• Give your view immediately
• Use other writing techniques to engage the reader, e.g. hyperbole, metaphors, similes, personification, i m a g e r y.

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V O C A B U L A R Y   T O   U S E 

• Superlative
• Marvellous
• Supreme
• Outstanding
• Dazzling
• Remarkable
• Consummate
• Prodigious
• Unique
• Peerless
• Premier
• Faultless
• Flawless
• First rate
• Finest
• Brightest
• Biggest
• Superior
• Praiseworthy
• Noteworthy
• Enviable
• Admirable respected
• impressive

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