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ARTICLE WRITING sample igcse

The article provides guidelines for writing engaging magazine pieces, emphasizing a catchy title, dramatic openings, and a personal style. It outlines the structure of a magazine article, including background information, current discussions, future predictions, and a concluding remark. The tone and voice should be adapted based on the audience and purpose, with a mix of formal and informal elements as needed.

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ARTICLE WRITING sample igcse

The article provides guidelines for writing engaging magazine pieces, emphasizing a catchy title, dramatic openings, and a personal style. It outlines the structure of a magazine article, including background information, current discussions, future predictions, and a concluding remark. The tone and voice should be adapted based on the audience and purpose, with a mix of formal and informal elements as needed.

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ARTICLE:

- Catchy title
- Dramatic opening - hooks the reader
- Personal/anecdotal style
- Repetition - keeps the reader engaged
- Humorous voice/ idiom
- Subheadings/ rhetorical questions
- Rhetorical questions - relationship with the reader
- Chatty style
- Depending on the question - formal or informal voice
- Don’t use sentence fragments - EVER
- No fillers in formal, you may if you want in informal
LANGUAGE FEATURES:
- Chatty language - depends on the question
- Rhetorical questions
- Facts, Statistics - usually in a formal letter
- Opinions
- Repetition

NOTE: Work out the audience and purpose. This will inform the tone/voice
of your piece - this tip is basically for each and every Q3 type that’s there

FORMAT THING/STRUCTURE/YOU GET THE IDEA:


1. Topic - Introduce the issue, which may be something topical and in the news,
research
recently published, or a proposal that has been put forward by a government or
other
agency, or the description of the person that the article will concern. Unlike a news
report
which is informative, a magazine article is discursive writing - a genre of writing that
asks
you to investigate something
2. Bullet point 1 (Usually something related to the background of the
topic): The article is
likely to fill in the past history of the person or event with which the article is
concerned so
that readers are fully aware of the necessary facts and reason why the article has
been
written and what has led to the current state of affairs
3. Bullet point 2 (Usually discussion of the topic in the current-day
situation): The article is likely to return to the present-day situation at this point,
discussing and giving different
viewpoints of the person or event or whatever, with details and examples and
quotations
and making comparisons with the past or with similar topics. Though the writer’s
own
viewpoint may be inferred, alternative views must be given equal weight, and other
voices'
heard
4.Bullet point 3 (Usually something like predictions or future related): At
this point, the article may deal with the future developments or predicted outcome
of the present situation, eg.
that a person will go on to become even more famous and successful, or a problem
will
become worse if nothing is done.
5. Conclusion - The article needs a neat conclusion, which may be an ironic
reference or
humorous comment, an evaluation of the different viewpoints, or a reference back
to the
beginning of the article, or a quotation.

SAMPLE (Just images from the video, this is too long to type):
- This article is more informal and hence has a more chatty tone, and humorous
voice. This
varies according to the question

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