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Paper 1 Answering Methods - Coggle Diagram
Paper 1 Answering Methods
Comprehension
Interrogate the Text
Clarify: Try to clarify any gaps you may have because there may be some difficult words you haven't seen before.
Evidence: Look around the text for evidence.
Question: Ask yourself the 5W after reading the text to find out what's going on.
Infer: Make some informed inferences or interpretations about the text, based on any clues, signs, hints, or any patterns you come across.
Summarise the Text
Use Your Own Words: Use your own words in your summary, and avoid repeating keywords. The best way to do that is to go to the thesaurus you keep in your brain and find a synonym of the word.
Summarise: Use your Critical Reading Tools to chop up the text, digest it and pick out its key points.
Analysis
Analysis
Look at the evidence, in this case, your text extract and ask three questions in order to interrogate it and get to the truth.
What have they done?
How have they done it?
Why did they do it?
Meaning and Purpose
You should be able to work out the explicit and implicit meaning of the text by using your Critical Reading Tools. But this question is more focused on HOW they've written the text, rather than WHAT they've written.
Writing Techniques
Try to look out for writing techniques when you're reading and see how many you spot. If there are any terms you don't know, write the word down on a revision card with a brief definition next to it, then regularly test yourself on your new words until you remember them.
Sentence Length
Good writing has varied sentence lengths it's not just one long
sentences after another!
If the writer has noticeably varied their sentence lengths, then comment on that as a technique and explain why you think they did it.