Criterion 7 of 10 · Narrative writing

Paragraphing

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Preview: the film’s opening, 0:53
Opening the course…

What the film covers

In one student’s story a car leaves the road between two paragraphs: it isn’t written anywhere, it happens in the gap. Paragraphing is worth up to two marks, and the film shows its three scores as three gaps, in the markers’ own words: random, appropriate and deliberate.

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Stories from the film

From the guide’s sample scripts, with the score each was given for Paragraphing.

  • Living dead 0 out of 2
  • The shade whispered 1 out of 2
  • His eyes widened 2 out of 2
From the film: in the airFrom the film: living deadFrom the film: three gaps

A handout to print

Stories from the film, and the scale for this criterion. It comes with free access.

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