The Written Explanation
As well as creating your piece, you must also discuss and analyse, in a written explanation, your decisions about form, purpose, language choices and intended audience.
PURPOSE:
Purpose refers to what you are trying to achieve with the piece.
E.g. “I have written this piece with the purpose of exploring the idea that group and individual identity can be represented through dress. It is intended to be an entertaining reflective piece for a collection of student writing. The message that I am sending to my audience through this piece is not to judge people on how they dress because you might not understand how it reflects their identity”.
Examples of purposes can be to:
o Entertain
o Persuade
o Instruct
o Inform
o Reflect
o Report
Always remember to identify what the purpose of the piece is in regards to your audience. What is your contention as the author of the
piece?
AUDIENCE:
Audience is essential to the form and purpose choice as it determines who would read this piece. The audience may be authentic or imagined.
E.g. you may write a letter to your school council about the issues of uniform or you may choose to write for an imagined future generation about a time when there was no such thing as a‘uniform’.
The important thing is to make your language choices appropriate for your intended audience.
FORM:
Form relates to the genre and text type that you are using for a particular piece of writing (E.g. Imaginative – short story, persuasive – essay, expository – article). You will need to identify the form that you have selected, your reason for selecting the form and the structural features of the form.
LANGUAGE CHOICES:
Consideration of form and purpose and audience will help you decide on appropriate language choices for the piece.
For example:
o In a persuasive piece you will need to discuss the use of persuasive language techniques such as attacks, emotive language, rhetorical language, tone, etc and the effect it has on the reader.
o In a reflective piece you would need to discuss perhaps the use of descriptive language techniques such as similes and metaphors.
You will also need to mention how your language choices are appropriate for your audience. E.g. the use of technical language and sophisticated vocabulary is suited.
to a more mature and educated readership.
Answer some of these questions, obviously don't answer them all and only the relevent ones, throughout the statement of explanation:
- What is the form of writing you have chosen?
- Why did you choose this form?
- How will this form and your idea allow you to explore the prompt?
- What conventions of form have you used?
- What type of writing does this form come under?
- How was your form influenced by the text?
- Does your writing fit under a specific genre? how is this made obvious?
- What language examples and types have you used and why?
- How have you used them to create meaning?
- What language conventions have been used?
- Have you subverted any language expectations and why?
- How have you altered the language to suit your purpose, audience, form?
- How did the text influence your language choice?
- How is your audience addressed in your piece?
- What stratagies did you use to allow your piece to more accurately reflect and appeal to your audience?
- What is the main purpose of your piece?
- Which verbs most accurately describe what your piece does?
- How is your purpose made clear?
- What did you do to ensure that your intended purpose was met?
- How has the audience, form, language and purpose been used to explore the prompt?
- What ideas did you use?
- How did these ideas link to the context?
- Which contextual vocabulary did you use and why?
- How have you used the ideas presented in the text?
- What links can you see between your writing and the studied text?
- How did you expand on the ideas put forward in the prompt?
- What topic sentences/ideas did you use?
- How did you place the ideas/ topic sentences?
- How did you ensure that the topic sentences didn't seem forced or out of place?
- What structural and/or stylistic elements have you drawn inspiration from, and how have you incorporated them into your writing?
- How does the language used mimic the language, vocab and grammatical features of the original text?
- Do you have a similar use of motif or metaphor? How has this been incorporated so that it doesn't look forced?
- How important is the setting in your writing? How does this assist you to explore the context and ideas from the original text?
PURPOSE:
Purpose refers to what you are trying to achieve with the piece.
E.g. “I have written this piece with the purpose of exploring the idea that group and individual identity can be represented through dress. It is intended to be an entertaining reflective piece for a collection of student writing. The message that I am sending to my audience through this piece is not to judge people on how they dress because you might not understand how it reflects their identity”.
Examples of purposes can be to:
o Entertain
o Persuade
o Instruct
o Inform
o Reflect
o Report
Always remember to identify what the purpose of the piece is in regards to your audience. What is your contention as the author of the
piece?
AUDIENCE:
Audience is essential to the form and purpose choice as it determines who would read this piece. The audience may be authentic or imagined.
E.g. you may write a letter to your school council about the issues of uniform or you may choose to write for an imagined future generation about a time when there was no such thing as a‘uniform’.
The important thing is to make your language choices appropriate for your intended audience.
FORM:
Form relates to the genre and text type that you are using for a particular piece of writing (E.g. Imaginative – short story, persuasive – essay, expository – article). You will need to identify the form that you have selected, your reason for selecting the form and the structural features of the form.
LANGUAGE CHOICES:
Consideration of form and purpose and audience will help you decide on appropriate language choices for the piece.
For example:
o In a persuasive piece you will need to discuss the use of persuasive language techniques such as attacks, emotive language, rhetorical language, tone, etc and the effect it has on the reader.
o In a reflective piece you would need to discuss perhaps the use of descriptive language techniques such as similes and metaphors.
You will also need to mention how your language choices are appropriate for your audience. E.g. the use of technical language and sophisticated vocabulary is suited.
to a more mature and educated readership.
Answer some of these questions, obviously don't answer them all and only the relevent ones, throughout the statement of explanation:
- What is the form of writing you have chosen?
- Why did you choose this form?
- How will this form and your idea allow you to explore the prompt?
- What conventions of form have you used?
- What type of writing does this form come under?
- How was your form influenced by the text?
- Does your writing fit under a specific genre? how is this made obvious?
- What language examples and types have you used and why?
- How have you used them to create meaning?
- What language conventions have been used?
- Have you subverted any language expectations and why?
- How have you altered the language to suit your purpose, audience, form?
- How did the text influence your language choice?
- How is your audience addressed in your piece?
- What stratagies did you use to allow your piece to more accurately reflect and appeal to your audience?
- What is the main purpose of your piece?
- Which verbs most accurately describe what your piece does?
- How is your purpose made clear?
- What did you do to ensure that your intended purpose was met?
- How has the audience, form, language and purpose been used to explore the prompt?
- What ideas did you use?
- How did these ideas link to the context?
- Which contextual vocabulary did you use and why?
- How have you used the ideas presented in the text?
- What links can you see between your writing and the studied text?
- How did you expand on the ideas put forward in the prompt?
- What topic sentences/ideas did you use?
- How did you place the ideas/ topic sentences?
- How did you ensure that the topic sentences didn't seem forced or out of place?
- What structural and/or stylistic elements have you drawn inspiration from, and how have you incorporated them into your writing?
- How does the language used mimic the language, vocab and grammatical features of the original text?
- Do you have a similar use of motif or metaphor? How has this been incorporated so that it doesn't look forced?
- How important is the setting in your writing? How does this assist you to explore the context and ideas from the original text?
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