Turn-Taking

Good source on turn-taking here, with some practice and testing. Interesting framing too, though a little incomplete in some of the sections elsewhere.


https://www.sedit.org.uk/learn/styled/styled-3/styled-11/index.html

Understanding Visual Hierarchy in Web Design

The idea of 'visual hierarchy' is much more useful when writing about graphology than saying 'it's bold so it stands out/catches the eye'. That's true, but looking at the relative 'boldness' of the text section compared to all the other text, and the choice of *how* it's made bold (alone with other aspects of meaning like the emotional value related to a colour choice, for example), gives you much more to say.

Graphology should be linked to other features of language given greater weight by the exam board -- especially discourse structure: the organisation of the text including reading order and evaluation of importance.

https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/understanding-visual-hierarchy-in-web-design--webdesign-84

Cohesion in essays from uni of Sydney

This little section of UofS's site has a nice, friendly account of theme-rheme structures and other features of cohesion, as well as useful guides about how to write and structure a general academic essay. I've linked to the section on cohesion, but look also at the tabs on grammar, and how to cite sources.

(Be aware that your writing for A Level may not follow exactly this style -- check the requirements of each module. But it's good general advice!)

2. Strategies for creating cohesion - Page 1

Script Formats from the BBC

Hugely interesting and useful page from the BBC offering a range of standard script formats. You aren't expected to follow these styling formats when you submit coursework -- please don't, keep formatting very simple -- but you should be aware of the elements that a director, producer and performers will need to know about in order to make sense of your script.

When you submit a script for consideration later in your professional life, you will need to follow the formatting standards -- so you may well be interested in becoming familiar with them now!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/send-a-script/formatting-your-script

I just rediscovered this in my iBooks collection. Other ebook readers which can handle the standard .epub format should be able to read it too, though it's got some snazzy features that might not work. 

The material in this short, free, electronic book from the Open University bridges our work on grammar and introduces some of the issues we'll be learning next term at AS; good revision material therefore for A2s, too. 

Check out this collection on iTunes U:

English grammar in context - for iBooks The Open University English 13 Ratings View in iTunes

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

This marvellous page hyperlinks a range of classical rhetorical terms and explanations,with examples of each. The links on the left are most useful - organising and classifying the approaches to speechifying in a range of well-crossreferenced ways.
An exploration of rhetoric isn't only useful as a way into thinking about discourse structures, sentence structures and semantic tricks – though the terms aren't ones we need to know at A Level – but also a way to think about structuring your own writing and presentations.
http://rhetoric.byu.edu/default.htm

Lost Generation by Jonathan Reed

Clever poem that plays with sentence structures. In particular it uses nested sentences and conjunctions very carefully.
http://wp.me/p1deI-CN

"How to Write an Essay -- 10 Easy Steps": A Step-by-Step Guide For Students Writing Essays

In case you were wondering.
http://www1.aucegypt.edu/academic/writers/

Awful Opening Sentences competition

How not to. But here, deliberately, and funny.

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2011.htm

People Read Web Pages in an F-Shaped Pattern

So you'll read this first paragraph more or less in full. 

And only so much of this one. 

And then

Just the

First

Words. 

People Read Web Pages in an F-Shaped Pattern
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/07/10/people-read-web-pages-in-an-f-shaped-pattern/