Associated Resources
- Language Interventions Student Guide Part 1 English Language AQA A ENGA4
- ENGA4 Language Intervention Guide Part 1.doc
- ENGA4 Language Intervention Guide Part 2.doc
Part Two
Developing Form and Style
Once you’ve settled on your argument and established what you’re going to say, you need to work out how you’re going to say it, where you’re going to say it and what order to put it all in. Most of these areas are interlinked, so the style you write in will have quite a lot to do with the form you are adopting.
- If it’s an op-ed you might opt for some personal digressions which give the reader a better sense of you as a real person (or at least the illusion of that).
- If it’s a feature article you may decide to hang your topic on a recent news story.
- If it’s a news story reporting on new research findings you might decide to focus on previous findings or ideas that are now being reassessed.
There are of course other forms you might want to choose, but we will concentrate on these three here.
First, let’s look at some examples and see how they work – or don’t work – and how they might be relevant to what you could write for your intervention.
News stories
Example one: the news story in the tabloid paper.
This is an example of a story about slang from The Daily Mirror written by Victoria Ward
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