Bemused about Architecture - thoughts on the GCSE English Exam
English teachers - help me out with this one. I finally got a chance this week to have a good look at the F Tier AQA English Language paper. It was basically what we were expecting, and the questions looked reasonable on the whole, but I'm baffled by question 4. For the uninitiated, this question asks students to 'compare the ways that presentational features are used for effect' in two non-fiction sources. The sources this year were a page from an information book about the Titanic, aimed at children, and a pared down and adapted version of this article about a brother and sister who survived a recent boating accident. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/26/brother-sister-swim-boat-sinks My confusion stems from the fact that to me, it seems utterly bereft of meaningful presentational features - on the paper insert that the students get, most of the presentational conventions of the genuine website are removed, so there are no comments, share buttons, different colou...