Paper 1 Practice #1

I have completed the paper 1 assessment which was the analysing of non-literary techniques. We knew that the options that we would have on the practice were going to be one of the political cartoons we’d done in class. In preparation for the test I went over the all the political cartoons we had previously done in class and I revised the techniques or devices the used in throughout making the political cartoon. We had learned the context behind these cartoons and the background information regarding them, so I thought it was only right to imagine that we will have to make connections with the context and the techniques used. I studied different techniques from the list that we had in class I but i tented to focu on Irony,symbolism and labeling as those techniques were frequently used more than any other ones.

The actual assessment went decently. I was given an option between two cartoons one of them my group and I had already done in class so I chose that particular cartoon. Before beginning I took some time to plan what I was going to say, how i was gonna say and basically planning the overall structure of my intro,body and conclusion before writing so that I could be able to write without stopping every second in order to think what I was going. I was told by my teacher that my writing was somewhat good but it was still a bit messy as the structure wasn’t good. I think that the reason for this was the fact that as im writing i began to have new ideas and tend to restructure what I was originally going to say. A good example would be my introduction which my teacher asked me to redo since it wasn’t the best. I think I was able to do a good job at providing background information and context, relating to what the political cartoon was originally talking about/inspired by and what was ludy justice what does she represent my teacher said I did a good job at that. My greatest mistake was the misinterpretation of summarising and labeling as I switched the two and that was due to them being very similar. I feel like I was still able to do a good job summarising my work at the end. I can improve by being more direct with my work and being able to keep my reader focused rather than jumping from place to place I also could improve my structure which would make it easier to read my work.