Grammar: it's important!

Descriptive Writing AQA. Paper 1.

Marked out of 40.

24 marks for content and organisation.  16 marks for technical accuracy.

Descriptive Writing Mark Scheme AQA

Assesses AO5: Content and Organisation

Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences.

Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts.




Also assesses AO6: Technical accuracy

Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.

Find the definitions to the following words:

• tone
• style
• register
• form
• purpose
• coherence 
• structure
• discourse markers.