A bibliography is a list of all the sources that you used to make your eportfolio. This includes all books, magazines, newspapers, websites, interviews and tv programmes. put each source on a single line, with a comma between each and a full stop at the end. Use the example below as a guide: books fleming, ian, 'diamonds are forever', penguin books, 1957. website it is best to keep your bibliography up to date as you go through each project.

Keep a word processor file called bibliography open whenever you are working on your project. Remember it is fine to use secondary sources to gather information for your project, but you cannot just reproduce them. copy a piece of work and passing it off as your own and could infringe copyright copyright. gives the creator of an original piece of work control over its publication, distribution and adaptation . You don't need to have several pages of references, just put in the things you used.

You will be given a specific task by your teacher on the theme of ‘me, myself and i.’ this task will tell you what the purpose is and who the are – but you may have to work them out from the task. It is likely that you will be asked to inform the reader about some aspect of your life. Writing about your own life is called ‘autobiography.' you may be given another purpose – perhaps the task will ask you to use an experience from your own life to help others deal with problems, or another dual purpose task. Writing from personal experience can cover all sorts of types of writing: travel writing, stories, inspirational speeches and more. But the task will ask you to take a small part of your life and make it into a whole story. Don’t fall into the trap of telling the story of your life with dates and places in order – autobiography is about making something personal into an interesting read which captivates the reader, rather than getting all the boring details in. How to write a good autobiography about yourself and get good marks etutor answers: be selective in the events you describe.

Choose the most dramatic and the most interesting cut out anything that is uneventful or ordinary. Write about the interesting people in your life and/or the most important e.g first day at school a good day out my most embarrassing moment my happiest/saddest day dramatise where possible.

introduction

this guide has been written to help you write for specific purposes and audiences.

It is written for students in england and wales, doing the original writing component of assessed work in english in key stage 4 of the national curriculum gcse. For a more advanced guide, please look at my tutorial on original writing for advanced course work. Click on the link below to go to this guide:

what do i have to do?

you are required to write for specific audiences and to explore, imagine or entertain. Please note that exam boards may require you to do some written coursework in your own handwriting.

An Argumentative Essay on Social Networking

If you do write fiction, think about different forms and genres it may be a short mystery tale for a magazine, in which case first or third person narrative may work. Alternatively, why not write a scene for a soap opera which you know well? you can show awareness of character and situation, show that you can sustain current plot lines and show that you know the conventions for this kind of writing. The media you read or watch are full of profiles, interviews, real life stories, lifestyle articles, reviews of soaps, film, books and music.

Why not write in some of these forms? again, this lets you show awareness of your audience.

written and spoken texts

you do not have to write to be read on the page though your teacher and examiners will read your work in this way. You may write a script for performance on stage, or to be broadcast on radio or television. You may write drama, but could also write a script for a documentary broadcast, a magazine programme like the clothes show, changing rooms or even blue peter . You could script a news broadcast like newsround , using stories from real news media.

one piece or several?

you may do either, but if you do one piece, you will need to find ways to vary your style, so that you can achieve the criteria for higher grades.

The description for grade a refers to a range of styles and of effects , for example.

new stories for old

the idea here is to take a fairly simple narrative: it may be the plot of a fairytale, nursery rhyme or something which happened to you. Tell the story in a number of different styles each one should not take more than a page. Later we will find the story told in other journals, letters, a newspaper report and typed copies of speech dictated into a phonograph an early recording device by one of the leading characters. If you have a reasonably interesting short story with a beginning, middle and end you can tell it in lots of different ways, to change the viewpoint.