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- 1. Multiple Choice
What are the main characteristics of descriptive writing?
An essay describing an event or a series of events
An essay where you tell and not show
An essay where you extensively describe something using the five senses surrounding you.
An essay where you build up characters and a long, sometimes twisted, storyline where events lead to a climax.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What are the main characteristics of narrative writing?
A form of writing where you develop a set of characters that develop through a series of events
A way of writing using only using formal writing (e.g. professional report, formal essay, formal letter etc.)
A form of writing where you describe your surroundings using the five senses
- 3. Multiple Choice
What are the different report styles?
Professional and musical
Personal and subject
Media and personal
News and professional
- 4. Multiple Choice
What are the characteristics of professional report writing?
To explain a series of events
To inform about and/or subjectify an opinion
To inform and persuade, as well as initiating change
- 5. Multiple Choice
What are the characteristics of a news report?
To persuade someone using informal writing
To convey a message using opinions and value judgements
To cover a topic, in an unbias way, by using fact and figures
- 6. Multiple Choice
What are the characteristics of a speech?
To convey a message using persuasive techniques towards a directed audience
To convey a message using fact and figure, without persuasion, to any group of people
To verbally describe an event using opinion rather than fact
To convey a message only by in real life vocal communication
- 7. Open Ended
What do you include in the opening paragraph of a professional report?
- 8. Multiple Choice
Identify the style of writing:
A letter
A news paper report
A speech
An essay
- 9. Multiple Choice
Identify the style of writing:
An essay
A short story
A letter
Descriptive writing
- 10. Multiple Choice
Identify the style of writing:
A news letter
An essay
A personal report
A professional report
- 11. Multiple Choice
What form of writing do you use when writing a speech?
Formal
Informal
Both depending on the audience and setting
- 12. Multiple Choice
What do you usually get graded on?
Nothing
SPaG and use of vocabulary
SPaG (quality of writing) and style (reading comprehension)
SPoG (quality of writing) and stiye (reading ability)
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