The Craft of Writing
EA12-CW is worth about 20 marks out of 100 in recent HSC English Advanced papers. Practise 10 exam-style questions (short answer) with instant marking and a worked solution for every question.
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Example 1 · 12 marks · short answer
Write a persuasive speech to be delivered to your school assembly, arguing that students should be given one afternoon a week for an unassessed project of their own choosing. (12 marks)
Example 2 · 20 marks · short answer
Stimulus:
> The tide had taken the footprints, but not the words she had written in the sand above the high-water line.
(a) Use this sentence as the opening of a piece of imaginative, discursive or persuasive writing that evokes a sense of loss in the reader. (10 marks)
(b) Evaluate how you have used language in part (a) to evoke a sense of loss in the reader. (10 marks)
Write your answer to (a) first, then start a new paragraph beginning (b) for your answer to (b).
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