ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVE

Isham Gani Rivai (10D)

OBJECTIVE 1

• Ability To Read with Understanding of Written Material in variety of forms, and comment on its effectiveness.

The written material forms are categorized based on it’s:–Genre–Writer’s Purpose–Tone

GENRE

FICTION (made up)

- Fairy Tales

- Mystery

- Realistic

- Science Fiction

- Fantasy

- Historical

Genre is the type of writing

NON FICTION (true/real)

- Biography

- Autobiography

- Travel

- Informational

- History

- Advertisement

PURPOSE

A purpose of a text can vary between the writer and the audience. There are four main purpose of text, there are :

others :

-To persuade, advertise, to ridicule, to scare, Et.c.

to inform, to instruct, to entertain, to persuade

TONE

= How the text is read (but in this case in written form)

The tone of a text relies heavily on the vocabulary used by the writer. Certain words will give off the tone of the text. The tone of a text is related to it’s purpose

- Persuasive - Critical- Humorous -

Confidential- Sarcastic - Etc.

OBJECTIVE 2

• To gain knowledge and understanding of English language features to be able to identify the genre, writer’s purpose and tone of a text.

• The English language features to look at are:– Vocabulary: the author’s choice of words– Figures of speech– Structure of the textThe vocabulary, figures of speech used and also the structure of a text varies according to the aim of the text.

VOCABULARY

• A person's vocabulary is the set of words within a language that are familiar to that person.

• That means it is the type of words the writer is used to use

FIGURES OF SPEECH

• Figures of speech are the speech features

• Such as:• Fillers• Elision• Colloquialisms• Pause

OBJECTIVE 3

• Ability to write clearly, accurately and effectively for a specified purpose or audience., also known as directed writing.

• In other words, it means to produce pieces of writing similar to the original passage which is commented on.

• Example: Writing an opening of a speech in the same style of the writer of the original speech by pretending to be the original writer.

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