Week 1: Persuasive writing: introduction & validity of arguments
Week 2: Structure and features of an advertorial, difference between advertisement and advertorial
Week 3: Formal letter layout, letter of complaint, formal and informal language
Week 4: Persuasive speech, differences between writing and speech, rhetorical devices
Week 5: Structure and features of a review, objective and subjective language
Week 6: Sensory imagery, descriptive writing, dangers of purple prose
Week 7: Writing dialogue, speech punctuation, characterisation
Week 8: Structure and features of a newspaper report, news angle
Week 9: Writing assessment, confusing vocabulary, incorporating quotations to newspaper reports
Week 10: Journal entry – language features, expressing persona