Module C: The Craft of Writing quiz

Poem, short story, and essay

Imaginative, discursive, and persuasive

Fiction, non-fiction, and drama

Past, present, and future

Write something completely new based on the stimulus

Prepare a flexible piece in advance and adapt it to the stimulus

Memorise a piece word-for-word and write it verbatim

Wait to see the stimulus then plan from scratch

Writing with very long sentences

Writing that argues a fixed position with structured rhetoric

A genre between essay and personal reflection that moves through ideas conversationally without forcing a fixed conclusion

Writing about discourse and language

A summary of your creative piece

Specific craft choices you made, with reference to a prescribed text and what each choice produced

Your feelings about writing

An apology for any weaknesses in the piece

Imagination

Talent

Craft

Originality

300 to 400 words

600 to 800 words

1200 to 1500 words

As long as you can write

It shows your personality

Markers like personal writing

Voice is the recognisable pattern of choices a writer makes that no one else would make in the same way, and a piece without voice lands mid-band even when fluent

It makes the piece longer

Numbered chapters

Recursive opening/closing image where the ending returns to the beginning with the meaning changed

A list of bullet points at the start

Writing the piece in alphabetical order

Quote them at length to prove you read them

List every prescribed writer to show breadth

Name a writer and a specific craft technique you took from their work, then show how it shaped a specific moment in your own piece

Mention them by title only

Spending too long reading the stimulus

Over-writing the creative piece and skimping on the reflection (which is also marked)

Writing too quickly

Reading their work aloud