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Transactional Writing Mat

Transactional writing aims to inform, persuade, or instruct the reader. It is important to plan the writing by considering the purpose, audience, and perspective. The writing should use a variety of techniques to engage the reader such as anecdotes, statistics, rhetorical questions, repetition, and emotive language. Cohesion is key, using devices like discourse markers, connectives, and parallel structures between paragraphs. Sentence structure and punctuation also contribute to effective transactional writing.

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Transactional Writing Mat

Transactional writing aims to inform, persuade, or instruct the reader. It is important to plan the writing by considering the purpose, audience, and perspective. The writing should use a variety of techniques to engage the reader such as anecdotes, statistics, rhetorical questions, repetition, and emotive language. Cohesion is key, using devices like discourse markers, connectives, and parallel structures between paragraphs. Sentence structure and punctuation also contribute to effective transactional writing.

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Transactional writing mat

Planning – initial response to Form: signal this to the Paragraphing Cohesion


question: examiner straight away: Variety – short and long  Discourse markers throughout
1. What is the purpose of your paragraphs – ALWAYS think  Connectives
writing? Newspaper: heading, sub- about the shape of your writing  Adverbials
2. Who is the audience? heading, picture box, quotation  Parallel structures
3. What perspective are you box, caption One sentence paragraph  Echoing from one paragraph
going to adopt? Letter: address, date, Dear…, to the next
yours sincerely, yours faithfully, Have one section that is bullet-  Lexical repetition
first person pointed  Opening and closing linked
Planning: SADOC plan Speech: title, first person, time Sentence starts Sentence lengths / types
reference, bullet points, use of  -ing starts (running, shouting, Short sentence
S Spider leg What is your
anaphora, sub-headings creeping) One word sentence
main idea?
Guidebook: heading, sub-  Prepositional starts (next to, Multi-clause sentence
(You need
headings, picture box, quotation beside, above) Imperative sentence
three)
box, bullet points  Adverbial starts (clearly, Interrogative sentence
A Add detail How will you
successfully, obviously) Exclamatory sentence
develop this
 Connective starts Sentence containing a list
idea in three
(Furthermore, Also, On the
different ways
other hand)
to ensure your
 -Ed starts (shouted, blended)
writing is
Engaging openings: Stylistic devices Punctuation
sustained?
Anecdote Full stops and capital letters
D Device What devices
1. Anecdote vs Flip Anecdote: Facts / opinions throughout
will you use?
Statistics Question mark
O Order What order
Imagine a world vs Now Rhetorical questions Exclamation mark
will your
imagine a world. Tricolons / triples Speech mark
paragraphs go
Repetition Commas in a list
in? (Strongest
2. Reference to a recent news Contrast Commas to mark clauses
– first and last)
event (doesn’t have to be real Emotive words Dashes
C Connectiv What
but should be realistic!). Epizeuxis Parenthesis
e discourse
Quote a reliable source Colon to introduce a list
marker will
A rhetorical question or a Forecful phrases Colon to introduce a quote from a
you use?
statistic. Exaggeration (hyperbole) reliable source
(NEVER use
Criticse the opposition Semi-colon
firstly,
An emotive statement of intent Appeal to pathos, logos and ethos Ellipsis
secondly,
/ call for action. Inverted commas for irony
thirdly)

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