Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Explain how tone is created through vocabulary, sentence forms and emphasis.

Explain how tone is created 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.

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. Explain how tone is created through should check grammar, punctuation, sentence control, spelling, vocabulary and accuracy as separate editing choices.