Selection and emphasis
What Selection and emphasis means in English Language GCSE, as defined for Eduqas, Pearson Edexcel.
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Choosing the strongest facts, ideas and key points and arranging them so the most important comes where it will have most effect.
Choosing the strongest facts, ideas or key points and organising them so the most important comes first or last.
Topics that use Selection and emphasis
- Subject Content - Scope of Study (Eduqas GCSE)
- Component 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing - 1.2 Writing (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Evidence and quotation
- Accurate use of linguistic and literary terminology
- Active listening
- Adapting register to audience and context
- Analysis of language, form and structure across texts
- Anecdote
- Audience and purpose
- Bias and misuse of evidence
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