Supporting students from reading through to language work and on to writing for specific purposes. * Focus on non-fiction and media - each unit helps students to analyse a particular text type. Opportunities for comparing and contrasting texts are provided throughout the book. * One student text for both years - a cost-effective resource that is differentiated to cater for both Foundation and Higher tiers, giving you maximum flexibility in the classroom. * Separate study guide to help students boost their grades - each unit helps students tackle a sample exam question, using a clear, step-by-step approach. The Study Guide is also ideal as a homework book. * A Teacher's Portfolio supports the Student's Book, containing copymasters with additional language practice, as well as extension material for more able students.

 

This book is part of a book series called Literacy in Context .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Cambridge University Press .

John Nield is an experienced and practising teacher, author, INSET provider and GCSE English examiner. He was a Head of English for 18 years, teaching at a variety of schools in the UK. John is co-author of the AQA (A) GCSE English: Skills for Language and Literature textbook and author of the AQA (A) GCSE English Spec-by-Spec Guides.

This book has the following chapters: Comparing media texts: Writing to analyse, review and comment on film; Analysing print-media advertisements; Analysing moving-image advertisements; Comparing news reports; Comparing print-media advertisements; Reading and writing non-fiction and literary non-fiction: Writing to argue; Writing to persuade; Writing to advise; Writing to inform; Writing to explain; Writing to describe; Approaches to original writing: Writing to imagine; Writing biography and autobiography; Reading and comparing poetry: Reading and responding to poems from different cultures and traditions; Comparing poems by Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke; Comparing poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage; Reading and responding to post-1914 prose; Language and techniques of 20th-century drama; Reading and responding to Shakespeare; Glossary of English and English Literature terms; Glossary of examiner's terms; Overview of the AQA specifications A for English and English Literature.