Idea technique
- 1. A Writing Strategy… Identify Describe Explanation Analyse Have you looked at the Is there a point of view that What effect does this What does this point and question carefully? needs sharing? evidence have? evidence have to do with Do you understand the Is there an important piece How important is the the question? command words and key of the puzzle that you can evidence that you have Use connectives to terms? share? shared? develop your explanation Do you need to define a further. What are you going to Give reasons for what term? talk about in your you have suggested. What information do you answer? have to support your Use evidence from the How many marks is it point? resources worth? Are there quotes that you can use to illustrate the point that you are making? Are there examples that you can include that show what you mean? To begin with… As a result of… In conclusion… Moving on to… This means that… This tells us that… As well as… This caused… This helps answer the question because… …Now try being creative
- 2. Describe Describe Explanation Analysis Use Resource 3 to explain why there is a housing crisis in Britain. Resource 3 states that This is shown by the This increase means These new homes will the population in fact the population that more new homes need to be built Britain is rising has risen by 2 million will be needed for this somewhere and (Independent in the last 10 years increasing population. recent announcements newspaper) (Daily Mail from the government November 2012) have said they will need to be built on greenfield land and will be large settlements The thing I want to talk The bit that proves my Showing that I know I know what all this about point what the evidence means writing has to do with my question