Front Cover -- Contents -- Section A: Reading -- The exam papers explained -- Planning your exam time -- Paper 1 Reading questions 1 -- Paper 1 Reading questions 2 -- Paper 2 Reading questions 1 -- Paper 2 Reading questions 2 -- Skimming for the main idea -- Annotating the sources -- Putting it into practice -- Putting it into practice -- The writer's viewpoint -- Fact, opinion and expert evidence -- Explicit information and ideas -- Implicit information and ideas -- Inference -- Point-Evidence-Explain -- Putting it into practice -- Putting it into practice -- Word classes -- Connotations -- Figurative language -- Creation of character -- Creating atmosphere -- Narrative voice -- Putting it into practice -- Putting it into practice -- Rhetorical devices 1 -- Rhetorical devices 2 -- Whole text structure: fiction -- Whole text structure: non-fiction -- Identifying sentence types -- Commenting on sentences -- Putting it into practice -- Putting it into practice -- Evaluating a fiction text 1 -- Evaluating a fiction text 2 -- Using evidence to evaluate -- Putting it into practice -- Writing about two texts -- Selecting evidence for synthesis -- Answering a synthesis question -- Looking closely at language -- Planning to compare language -- Comparing language -- Comparing structure -- Comparing ideas -- Comparing perspective -- Answering a comparison question -- Putting it into practice -- Section B: Writing -- Writing questions: an overview -- Writing questions: Paper 1 -- Writing questions: Paper 2 -- Writing questions: time management -- Writing for a purpose: creative 1 -- Writing for a purpose: creative 2 -- Writing for a purpose: viewpoint 1 -- Writing for a purpose: viewpoint 2 -- Writing for an audience -- Putting it into practice -- Putting it into practice -- Form: articles -- Form: letters and reports -- Form: speeches.

Putting it into practice -- Ideas and planning: creative -- Structure: creative -- Beginnings and endings: creative -- Putting it into practice -- Ideas and planning: viewpoint 1 -- Ideas and planning: viewpoint 2 -- Openings: viewpoint -- Conclusions: viewpoint -- Putting it into practice -- Paragraphing -- Linking ideas -- Putting it into practice -- Formality and standard English 1 -- Formality and standard English 2 -- Vocabulary for effect: synonyms -- Vocabulary for effect: creative -- Vocabulary for effect: viewpoint -- Language for different effects 1 -- Language for different effects 2 -- Language for different effects 3 -- Putting it into practice -- Putting it into practice -- Sentence variety 1 -- Sentence variety 2 -- Sentences for different effects -- Putting it into practice -- Ending a sentence -- Commas -- Apostrophes and speech punctuation -- Colons, semi-colons, dashes, brackets and ellipses -- Putting it into practice -- Common spelling errors 1 -- Common spelling errors 2 -- Common spelling errors 3 -- Proofreading -- Putting it into practice -- Source 8 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- Source 9 - Enduring Love -- Source 10 - To Kill a Mockingbird -- Source 11 - The Day of the Triffids -- Source 12a - Occupations Accessible to Women: Elementary Teaching -- Source 12b - OK, you try teaching 13-year-olds -- Source 13a - The Boys Are Back in Town -- Source 13b - The Rearing and Management of Children: Moral Influence - Obedience -- Source 14a - 'Appy ever after' -- Source 14b - 'Victorian Hypnotism' -- Practice Papers -- Answers.

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