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English · Key Stage 3 · The School
Viewpoint is built, not stated
Writers rarely announce their opinion; they build it with word choice, what they include, and what they leave out. "The crowd gathered" and "the mob swarmed" describe the same event with opposite sympathies. Ask: which words carry judgement? What has been left out that the other writer includes?
Compare methods, not just opinions
A weak comparison says: writer A likes it, writer B does not. A strong one says HOW: "A uses first-person anecdote to make the reader feel present, whereas B piles up statistics to make disagreement look unreasonable." Same topic, different tools, different effect on the reader — that is the comparison the mark scheme wants.
Connectives that actually compare
Use whereas, in contrast, similarly, likewise, however — and put them INSIDE the sentence so both texts appear together: "Whereas A dwells on one family, B never names an individual." Writing a paragraph on A and then a paragraph on B is not comparison; it is two descriptions side by side.
SIDE BY SIDE (weak): "Text A uses statistics. Text B uses anecdote." Two facts, no comparison. COMPARED (strong): "WHEREAS Text A builds authority through statistics — 'a 43% rise' — Text B works on sympathy through one named family, so A asks the reader to accept a scale of problem while B asks them to care about a case of it." One paragraph, both texts, and a connective doing real work.