Cheating rife answers

Dear loyal readers,

I was having a squint at your answers this morning and they seemed pretty good. I will go over the sample answers in Monday's session and we can share and exchange ideas. If you didn't manage to finish today you may wish to do so by Monday, but it isn't compulsory (but could be helpful)!

What we are essentially doing is this:

• Summarising the main points using your own words
• Addressing the type of article (quality newspaper, magazine etc) and addressing how you know this
• Who the article is aimed at (again, justifying your answer)
• What the purpose of the article is (there are lots of possibilities and permutations, again, backed up with evidence from the text)
• Writer's opinion (there are often a myriad of possibilities again, and guess what, to be evidenced from the passage)
• Evaluating the article. This is strengths and weaknesses

The helpnotes are there to help you, you are permitted to use dictionaries of any sort, you can consult any other notes etc.

You can type or handwrite your responses too, so don't panic, we will look at the possible answers on Monday. I'm not worried at this stage, so you shouldn't be either!

You will have a go at the answers next Tuesday for our first proper assessment (on the widely discussed topic of digital books) and I will mark them for the following Monday with (helpful) feedback. We will be doing this over three sessions which will neatly take us up to the October break. Some of you may get the assessment completed in two sessions.

I'll see you all next Monday and keep up the good work everybody.

Cheers, Mark