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1.3 Section B: Transactional Writing

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Question 118

Your school magazine is inviting students with no experience of interviewing to write profiles of people in the school community. Write a guide for these new interviewers. Explain how to get ready for an interview, and how to keep the conversation going sensitively when the person being interviewed says something unexpected.

Your work will be assessed on communication and adaptation to audience and purpose (27 marks), and organisation and technical accuracy (18 marks).

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1.3 Section B: Transactional Writing Questions

  1. IGCSE
  2. /English Language
  3. /1.3 Section B: Transactional Writing

281 exam-style questions on Edexcel A IGCSE English Language 1.3 Section B: Transactional Writing, covering 1.3.1 Focus of Section B, 1.3.2 Applying knowledge of text types to own writing, 1.3.3 Non-fiction writing techniques, planning and proofreading, 1.3.4 Writing an article for a magazine or newspaper, 1.3.5 Writing a speech, 1.3.6 Writing a letter, 1.3.7 Writing a guide, 1.3.8 Writing a review, and 1.3.9 Writing the text of a leaflet. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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