English Language · Paper 2 · AQA 8700
Writers' Viewpoints and Perspectives
Two texts, two viewpoints, one clear method. You'll build each skill separately before comparing whole sources.
Paper 2
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Reading pathway
Select accurately from both texts.
Combine what both sources tell us into one clear idea.
How do the writers' attitudes differ, and how do we know?
Explain the effect of a writer's specific choices.
Track how tone, rhetoric and structure shape viewpoint.
Viewpoint writing pathway
Purpose, audience, form and tone, built one step at a time.
Hold one clear position and develop it with evidence.
Open with impact, then build an argument that develops.
Take your own writing one clear step further.
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Start with retrieval across two sources, then build up to comparing viewpoints and writing your own argument.