English Language GCSE
Judging effectiveness and reader response
What Judging effectiveness and reader response means in English Language GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Making informed judgements about how successfully the writer's combined choices shape the reader's response, rather than merely describing them.
Topics that use Judging effectiveness and reader response
- Component 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing - 1.1 Reading (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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