Planning GCSE Transaction Writing for Top Grades

How do you plan an excellent answer to the transactional writing element of GCSE English Language?  This is not a straightforward part of the English Language examinations as my first post in this new series began to explore but it’s something I regularly teach as an English tutor.

Here is another past paper question:

‘Our addiction to cheap clothes and fast fashion means young people in poorer countries have to work in terrible conditions to make them.  We must change our attitude to buying clothes now.’

Write an article for a magazine or website in which you argue your point of view on this statement.

Mind maps are an excellent way to generate ideas, and you can slightly modify a simple mind map to organise arguments for and against. Must we change our attitudes?  What are the different arguments relevant to this question?

It’s a question of sequencing argument and balancing arguments against counter-arguments.  I teach a method of constructing a coherent and cogent point of view based on a secure reading of the question and a clear plan.

I specialise at stretching able students to achieve top grades in English Language and English Literature from Years 5-13.

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