Paper 2 in general

• Students should:

use language accurately and appropriately

(this means register should be appropriate to text type)

develop and organize ideas relevant to the task

(content and organisation)

produce the features of the required text type correctly.

(text type and format)

Paper 2 requires students to produce text types from the following list.

• Article

• Blog/diary entry

• Brochure, leaflet, flyer, pamphlet, advertisement

• Essay

• Interview

• Introduction to debate, speech, talk, presentation

• News report

• Official report

• Review

• Set of instructions, guidelines

• Written correspondence
Criterion A: Language
• How effectively and accurately does the student use language?

Failure to write the minimum number of words will result in a 1-mark penalty.

Command of the language is good and effective.

9–10 A wide range of vocabulary is used accurately, with few significant errors. Some
complex sentence structures are clear and effective.

Criterion B: Message
• How clearly can the student develop and organize relevant ideas?

The message has been communicated well.

9–10 The ideas are relevant.The development of ideas is coherent and effective; supporting
details are appropriate.

Tips from examiner reports:

- Paragraphing
- Cohesive devices (whatever that means)
- Transitions
- Argumentative connecters and words (e.g. cependant)

Criterion C: Format
• How correctly does the student produce the required text type?

• To what extent are the conventions of text types appropriate?

 The text type is clearly recognizable and appropriate.
5
Conventions appropriate to the text type are effective and evident.

Tips
- Physical format
- Register appropriate
- Right opening and endings
- Rhetorical processes (e.g. speech rhetoric is diff from letter)
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