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Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Adapt tone, register and vocabulary to suit the intended reader.
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Section B Viewpoint writing
Question
Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Adapt tone, register and vocabulary to suit the intended reader.
Answer
Adapt tone, register and vocabulary 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 Writing for audience, purpose and form, 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. Writing for audience, purpose and form should plan audience, purpose, form, tone, viewpoint, content and structure before drafting. Adapt tone, register and vocabulary to should check grammar, punctuation, sentence control, spelling, vocabulary and accuracy as separate editing choices.
Common mistake
register: summary instead of analysis
Students sometimes summarise Writing for audience, purpose and form 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 "Adapt tone, register and vocabulary to suit the intended reader."
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