For IB Students, Paper 1 in English appears to be difficult and mindboggling. Without a doubt, it is one of the most challenging papers for IBDP students as they are completely unaware of the questions being posed. After all, that is the paper’s objective. A student’s ability to analyse a visual text and compose an essay based on your findings is assessed by the IB.
What should I write in my essay?
It should be a detailed analysis of the given text. Students must draw conclusions, analyse the structure, and evaluate the information. They should write an essay to present their findings.
What kinds of questions will be asked?
Textual analysis can be found in editorials, magazines, speeches, interview scripts, instruction manuals, campaigns, blog entries, and more for IB English Literature SL and HL, as well as IB English Language and Literature SL and HL.
There will be a guiding question for SL students, and your response should be based on the question.
What is the best way to write a textual analysis?
Examine the text to determine what genre it belongs to. To put it another way, evaluate whether the text is a blog post, a newspaper editorial, a contribution website, an iTunes page, or something else entirely. Concentrate on the structure after you’ve identified the sort of text.
It may appear that analyzing the structure of textual analysis is difficult, but believe me – it is not! When you first glance at the text, the structure is the first thing you notice.
- Colour Psychology – Is the text’s colour scheme contrasting, and if so, how does it affect the reader? Is it eye-catching? In this section, you should concentrate on these factors.
- Logos – Pay attention to any logos that show the structure, if there are any. They could be from a company or from social media platforms. Note it down to later comment on it.
- Headings – Take notice of the order in which the headers and subheadings appear. Are any of the fonts italicized, bolded, or underlined?
- Images and Hyperlinks – You might also mention that most internet publications have hyperlinks to prove their work’s validity. Meanwhile, if there’s a photo, say something about it and explain why it’s presences there adds on to the text.
It’s now time to advance to the next level. In this section, we’ll concentrate on the writer’s content. Among other things, we seek to find persuasive techniques, literary methods, examples, testimonies, and genuine events.
- Literary devices – Metaphor, hyperbole, simile, analogy, foreshadowing, and other literary methods can be used by the writer.
- Persuasive appeals –
- Logos: This is a method of influencing an audience through logic and facts.
- Ethos: This is a technique for persuading an audience by relying on the authority or credibility of the persuader, who could be a well-known or experienced expert in the field or even a well-known celebrity.
- Pathos: This is a technique for persuading an audience to accept an argument by eliciting an emotional response to a passionate plea or a compelling story.
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