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- Subject: English
- AS: 90052
- Level: 1
- Credits: 3
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1.4 Produce creative writing
Key tips
- Use examples or exemplars of writing to model your work.
- Make sure the writing is your own. You may not use or repeat material from exemplars or samples, or work written by other students.
- Understand what the task is asking you to do.
- Plan your time wisely – if you are a weak speller allocate extra time.
- Write about something from your own experience so you can use real detail from your life.
- Don't spend all your time finding a topic.
- Plan your writing carefully so it has a clear beginning, middle, and end.
- Use double line spaces when you write your drafts so you can add corrections easily.
- Keep all your draft versions labelled and organised in a safe place.
- Reveal a character slowly through action and voice rather than telling the reader everything directly.
- Control the use of original metaphors and language features so they don't distract from the message.
- Read your writing 'aloud in your head' when you proofread, so you can listen for any weak or inappropriate words, sentences, or punctuation.
- Check that each new sentence starts with a capital letter.
- Check that you have used the correct spelling of a word that may sound like another (there/their, to/too/two).
- To check your spelling read your work backwards, from end to the beginning. Underline possible spelling errors and use a dictionary.
