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Recasting Skills

The second part of the exam paper asks you to recast an extract into a new text with a different audience and purpose to the original.  This extract will be taken from Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs - from the sections we’ve studied (Home and Family; Emancipation and Having It All; Crime and Punishment).  There will also be another question with an extract from A House Somewhere.

The key things here are to:

• Use the information you are provided with (do NOT make it up).  
• Write in an appropriate style for the audience and purpose you are given.
• Use your own words.
• Select the best information for the text you need to produce.
• Plan your writing: organise the information into the best order and note the linguistic features you should use for the set context.