Extended Writing Workshop Follow Up Quiz

What are the formats that are tested for Part 3: Extended Writing?

• Review

• Article

• Story

• Email

• Report

What are the 4 areas you need to consider while writing an essay?

• Language

• Content

• Organisation

• Tone and Register

• Communicative Achievement

For language, what do you need to do in order to obtain 4-5 marks in Extended Essay?

• Use less common words.

• Make no grammatical mistakes.

• Provide sophisticated ideas.

• Use the right tenses.

To obtain a full mark for content, you must

• Include all 3 points

• Use the right tone and register

• Make sure that the points are written in relation to the topic

• The details used are relevant to the points given

• Use sophisticated ideas/arguments

How can you score for organisation?

• use a variety of less common connectors/linking words

• sequence your points logically

• use varying sentence lengths and structures

• write in about 200 - 250 words

For an article, what is the most suitable tone you can use?

• Informal

• Formal

• Semi-formal

Communicative achievement is said to be achieved when

• You use the right tone and register (formal/informal)

• You use features of the genre

• Your essay must be impactful for the reader

• You use correct tenses

What are the features that you need to include in a review?

• Description

• Details

• Strengths

• Weaknesses

• Recommendations

Which of the following sentences can be considered as a detailed description in a review?

• The place is fun.

• The cake is scrumptious.

• The movie is boring.

• When I first tasted that pizza, the cheese melted delicately in my mouth.

In report, how can we make our writing sounds impartial?

• Using passive sentences

• Refrain from using first or second person pronouns (I, we, you etc.)

• Avoid giving out judgments or use emotional languages

• Use semi-formal language