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Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Avoid listing techniques without explaining their effect in the source.

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Section A Reading non-fiction and literary non-fiction

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Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Avoid listing techniques without explaining their effect in the source.

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Avoid listing techniques without explaining response: A weak response usually summarises, guesses, or names a method without effect. Improve it by choosing evidence, explaining the effect, and linking the point to audience, purpose or writer purpose method. For Analysing language in non-fiction, keep one clear focus, select brief evidence or a planned example, explain the method or writing choice, and link the point to effect, audience, purpose, form or tone where relevant.

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This is effective because it makes the mistake correction, evidence, explanation and assessment objective visible. Replace summary with a precise point, brief evidence, method, effect and writer purpose so the correction is exam-ready. Analysing language in non-fiction needs a language method, such as word choice or imagery, linked to reader effect. Analysing language in non-fiction should plan audience, purpose, form, tone, viewpoint, content and structure before drafting.

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effect: summary instead of analysis

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For Section A Reading non-fiction and literary non-fiction, which option best applies inference from evidence to this objective: Avoid listing techniques without explaining their effect in the source.

Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Avoid listing techniques without explaining their effect in the source.

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For Section A Reading non-fiction and literary non-fiction, which option best applies inference from evidence to this objective: Avoid listing techniques without explaining their effect in the source.