Transactional writing mat
Planning – initial response to Form: signal this to the Paragraphing Cohesion
question: examiner straight away: Variety – short and long Discourse markers throughout
1. What is the purpose of your paragraphs – ALWAYS think Connectives
writing? Newspaper: heading, sub- about the shape of your writing Adverbials
2. Who is the audience? heading, picture box, quotation Parallel structures
3. What perspective are you box, caption One sentence paragraph Echoing from one paragraph
going to adopt? Letter: address, date, Dear…, to the next
yours sincerely, yours faithfully, Have one section that is bullet- Lexical repetition
first person pointed Opening and closing linked
Planning: SADOC plan Speech: title, first person, time Sentence starts Sentence lengths / types
reference, bullet points, use of -ing starts (running, shouting, Short sentence
S Spider leg What is your anaphora, sub-headings creeping) One word sentence
main idea? Guidebook: heading, sub- Prepositional starts (next to, Multi-clause sentence
(You need headings, picture box, quotation beside, above) Imperative sentence
three) box, bullet points Adverbial starts (clearly, Interrogative sentence
A Add detail How will you successfully, obviously) Exclamatory sentence
develop this Connective starts Sentence containing a list
idea in three (Furthermore, Also, On the
different ways other hand)
to ensure your -Ed starts (shouted, blended)
writing is Engaging openings: Stylistic devices Punctuation
sustained? Anecdote Full stops and capital letters
D Device What devices 1. Anecdote vs Flip Anecdote: Facts / opinions throughout
will you use? Statistics Question mark
O Order What order Imagine a world vs Now Rhetorical questions Exclamation mark
will your imagine a world. Tricolons / triples Speech mark
paragraphs go Repetition Commas in a list
in? (Strongest 2. Reference to a recent news Contrast Commas to mark clauses
– first and last) event (doesn’t have to be real Emotive words Dashes
C Connective What but should be realistic!). Epizeuxis Parenthesis
discourse Quote a reliable source Colon to introduce a list
marker will A rhetorical question or a Forecful phrases Colon to introduce a quote from a
you use? statistic. Exaggeration (hyperbole) reliable source
(NEVER use Criticse the opposition Semi-colon
An emotive statement of intent Appeal to pathos, logos and ethos Ellipsis
firstly,
/ call for action. Inverted commas for irony
secondly,
Planning – initial response to Form: signal this to the Paragraphing Cohesion
question: examiner straight away: Variety – short and long Discourse markers throughout
1. What is the purpose of your paragraphs – ALWAYS think Connectives
writing? Newspaper: heading, sub- about the shape of your writing Adverbials
2. Who is the audience? heading, picture box, quotation Parallel structures
3. What perspective are you box, caption One sentence paragraph Echoing from one paragraph
going to adopt? Letter: address, date, Dear…, to the next
yours sincerely, yours faithfully, Have one section that is bullet- Lexical repetition
first person pointed Opening and closing linked
Planning: SADOC plan Speech: title, first person, time Sentence starts Sentence lengths / types
reference, bullet points, use of -ing starts (running, shouting, Short sentence
S Spider leg What is your anaphora, sub-headings creeping) One word sentence
main idea? Guidebook: heading, sub- Prepositional starts (next to, Multi-clause sentence
(You need headings, picture box, quotation beside, above) Imperative sentence
three) box, bullet points Adverbial starts (clearly, Interrogative sentence
A Add detail How will you successfully, obviously) Exclamatory sentence
develop this Connective starts Sentence containing a list
idea in three (Furthermore, Also, On the
different ways other hand)
to ensure your -Ed starts (shouted, blended)
writing is Engaging openings: Stylistic devices Punctuation
sustained? Anecdote Full stops and capital letters
D Device What devices 1. Anecdote vs Flip Anecdote: Facts / opinions throughout
will you use? Statistics Question mark
O Order What order Imagine a world vs Now Rhetorical questions Exclamation mark
will your imagine a world. Tricolons / triples Speech mark
paragraphs go Repetition Commas in a list
in? (Strongest 2. Reference to a recent news Contrast Commas to mark clauses
– first and last) event (doesn’t have to be real Emotive words Dashes
C Connective What but should be realistic!). Epizeuxis Parenthesis
discourse Quote a reliable source Colon to introduce a list
marker will A rhetorical question or a Forecful phrases Colon to introduce a quote from a
you use? statistic. Exaggeration (hyperbole) reliable source
(NEVER use Criticse the opposition Semi-colon
An emotive statement of intent Appeal to pathos, logos and ethos Ellipsis
firstly,
/ call for action. Inverted commas for irony
secondly,
