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Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Use rhetorical choices to make a viewpoint persuasive or engaging.

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Section B Viewpoint writing

Question

Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Use rhetorical choices to make a viewpoint persuasive or engaging.

Answer

Use rhetorical choices to make 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 Developing viewpoint and argument, 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. Developing viewpoint and argument should plan audience, purpose, form, tone, viewpoint, content and structure before drafting.

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viewpoint: summary instead of analysis

Students sometimes summarise Developing viewpoint and argument 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 "Use rhetorical choices to make a viewpoint persuasive or engaging."

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