Question 1 Directed Writing: How to Write an Article
One of the three formats that you may be asked to write in for Question 1 is an article. This will most likely be for a magazine, and you will be given the intended audience for your article and the reason why you are writing it in the task instructions. The opinions and ideas you put forward in your article should be based on what you have read in the reading passages given, and your writing marks will come from your ability to vary your writing to suit the purpose, audience and form of the task, as well as how you structure your response.
The following guide will detail how to structure your response in the style of an article. It is divided into: