A text's purpose is what it aims to achieve, while its audience is who it addresses.
A notice may instruct visitors; a review may evaluate a product; an advertisement may persuade customers.
Several purposes can coexist, so explain which seems dominant and support the choice with wording or structure.
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Please keep the gate closed: an instruction for users of the gate.
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A beginners’ guide explains terms that an expert report can assume.
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A text's purpose is what it aims to achieve, while its audience is who it addresses. A notice may instruct visitors; a review may evaluate a product; an advertisement may persuade customers. Several purposes can coexist, so explain which seems dominant and support the choice with wording or structure. Audience affects what a writer explains, assumes, and emphasises. A technical term might be helpful for specialists but confusing for beginners. Avoid the empty claim that a text is for everyone when its specific details suggest a more precise readership.
A useful reading response moves from a clear claim to a precise piece of evidence and then to an explanation. Return to the exact part of the text before deciding. Short evidence is usually easier to analyse than a long copied passage. Keep the wording of the question in mind so that an accurate observation also becomes a relevant answer.
At 9093 AS Level, relate terminology to actual meaning, form, structure and language. Reading analysis and writing craft should inform each other. Avoid identifying a feature without explaining its role, and avoid a commentary that claims choices absent from the text. This is an original selected-skills sequence for Papers 1–2, not a complete set of examination tasks.
වැඩි විස්තර අවශ්ය විට පමණක් මෙම කොටස කියවන්න.
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Genre is a recognisable kind of communication, shaped by recurring purposes and conventions.
A review evaluates; an editorial argues a public position; a memoir reflects on experience.
Conventions guide the reader, but they are not rigid checklists: an unusual opening can work if it still serves the intended purpose.
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A review needs evaluation rather than only description.
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An editorial can combine a clear position with carefully selected public evidence.
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Genre is a recognisable kind of communication, shaped by recurring purposes and conventions. A review evaluates; an editorial argues a public position; a memoir reflects on experience. Conventions guide the reader, but they are not rigid checklists: an unusual opening can work if it still serves the intended purpose. Identify the reader's expectations and decide which features matter for the task. In a transformation, adopting a heading alone does not make a text a report or article. The selection, organisation, voice, and relationship with the audience must also fit.
Plan before drafting: identify the reader, the purpose, and the information that must be included. Select a small number of useful details and place them in a logical order. After writing, check the effect on a reader who does not know your intentions. Revise unclear meaning first, then check sentence boundaries, verb forms, spelling, and punctuation.
At 9093 AS Level, relate terminology to actual meaning, form, structure and language. Reading analysis and writing craft should inform each other. Avoid identifying a feature without explaining its role, and avoid a commentary that claims choices absent from the text. This is an original selected-skills sequence for Papers 1–2, not a complete set of examination tasks.
වැඩි විස්තර අවශ්ය විට පමණක් මෙම කොටස කියවන්න.
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Register is language associated with a situation, relationship, purpose, or field of activity.
It is more than a simple formal/informal scale.
A medical consultation, a scientific report, and an interview may each use technical vocabulary in different interpersonal ways.
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Could you confirm the date? suits a respectful practical enquiry.
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A technical label may save explanation among specialists but require definition for novices.
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Register is language associated with a situation, relationship, purpose, or field of activity. It is more than a simple formal/informal scale. A medical consultation, a scientific report, and an interview may each use technical vocabulary in different interpersonal ways. Examine address terms, pronouns, modal verbs, specialist lexis, sentence patterns, and assumed knowledge. A writer may shift register to create closeness or distance. In your own writing, choose language that helps the audience act or understand; inflated vocabulary can make a request less effective rather than more professional.
Work from meaning to form. Read the first model, identify what the words are doing, and compare it with the second model. Explain the difference aloud before using the pattern in a new sentence. When checking a draft, locate the relevant word or clause and test it in its full sentence; a rule used in isolation may miss the intended meaning.
At 9093 AS Level, relate terminology to actual meaning, form, structure and language. Reading analysis and writing craft should inform each other. Avoid identifying a feature without explaining its role, and avoid a commentary that claims choices absent from the text. This is an original selected-skills sequence for Papers 1–2, not a complete set of examination tasks.
වැඩි විස්තර අවශ්ය විට පමණක් මෙම කොටස කියවන්න.
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