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Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Select evidence from both sources to support a comparative response.

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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: Select evidence from both sources to support a comparative response.

Answer

Select evidence from both sources 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 Comparing writers' methods and perspectives, 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.

Explanation

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. Select evidence from both sources to should use brief evidence and explain what that evidence implies, so the inference is not just explicit summary. Comparing writers' methods and perspectives should plan audience, purpose, form, tone, viewpoint, content and structure before drafting.

Common mistake

evidence: summary instead of analysis

Students sometimes summarise Comparing writers' methods and perspectives instead of explaining how the objective works in the answer.

Correct this by selecting a brief detail, explaining its effect, and linking the point back to "Select evidence from both sources to support a comparative response."

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