The guided-analysis method
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What is Paper 1?
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A guided analysis of unseen non-literary text(s): SL one [20], HL two [40].
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What is the core move of a guided analysis?
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Feature → effect → meaning: name the choice, explain its effect, link it to meaning/purpose.
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What is a guiding question?
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A question pointing you to a central feature of the text; you may answer it or choose your own focus.
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What is a thesis in Paper 1?
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Your one-sentence overall answer that the whole analysis supports.
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Give the sentence stem that scores.
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‘By [choice], the writer [effect], which [meaning/purpose].’
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Feature-spotting vs analysis?
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Feature-spotting names devices; analysis explains their effect and meaning. Only analysis scores well.
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What does ‘tone’ mean?
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The writer's attitude — e.g. urgent, dry, angry, warm.
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What does ‘register’ mean?
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How formal or informal the language is, and who it suits.
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Which criterion rewards evaluating how choices shape meaning?
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Criterion B — analysis and evaluation.
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What must you analyse in a visual text type?
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Visual choices — layout, image, colour — as well as the words.
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Name the four Paper 1 criteria.
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A Understanding, B Analysis and evaluation, C Focus and organization, D Language.
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