Unit 4: Personal or creative writing

Knowing your audience, purpose and form will help you tailor your writing appropriately and make sensible choices about language, tone and structure.

Boost your writing skills with planning techniques such as mind maps, bullet points, flow charts and tables.

How to organise information and ideas effectively when producing a piece of personal writing or a creative essay in your Unit 4 exam.

How to write effective fiction, including planning, story structure, language techniques, sentence variety and use of paragraphs.

Learn how to use a range of literary techniques and rhetorical devices to make your writing more engaging and create different effects on your audience.

Tips and techniques for expanding your vocabulary and using more interesting words to help make your writing stand out.