OVERVIEW OF AS LEVEL GENRE TO BE COVERED 22/23
Descriptive writing
Advertisements
Brochures
Leaflets
Editorials
News Stories
Articles
Reviews
Blogs
Investigative Journalism
Letters
Podcasts
(Auto)biographies
Travel writing
Diaries
Essays
Scripted speech
Narrative Writing
LINGUISTIC ELEMENTS AND LITERALLY FEATURES OF TEXTS
Parts of speech
Word classes
Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Phonology
Morphology
Rhetorical Devices
Voice
Aspect
Tense
Modality
Narrative perspective
Word ordering
Sentence structure
Paragraph
Pragmatics
Formality and informality of tone
NOTE: 1. You must understand the significance of audience in both the design
and reception of texts.
2. The ways in which genre, purpose and context contribute to the
meaning of texts