Article
Inform and engage through audience-aware writing.
Write for the situation
Audience
school-magazine readers
Purpose
Inform and engage
Register and tone
Accessible and engaging; adjust formality to the publication
Avoid
A diary of events with no angle for readers
Conventions that help the reader
A relevant headline; an opening that engages the readership; developed paragraphs; a purposeful ending. These are adaptable guidance: task, audience and purpose decide the choices.
A flexible route through the text
- 1Headline and hook
- 2Explain the issue
- 3Develop examples and implications
- 4Close with a useful insight
Language to develop
Choose precise verbs and examples. Connect reasons and consequences, qualify claims when necessary and vary sentence forms without forcing unfamiliar language.
Planning question
What does your reader gain from this article?
Model extract · Social organization
This original teaching extract shows selected choices. It is shorter than a complete Paper 1 response and is not an IB-marked exemplar.
New faces, shared spaces
A newcomer can spend a whole lunchtime surrounded by people and still feel alone. Our proposed peer-mentoring programme could change that, but only if we give mentors a real job. A friendly greeting is a start; a shared activity gives people a reason to keep talking. Imagine two students planning a club visit together rather than exchanging one awkward hello. The challenge is to make the invitation open to everyone, not simply to students who already seem confident.
Read as a writer
Find evidence of the intended reader, purpose and register. Identify a convention that makes the text usable.
Explore the content
Underline an example, reason or practical detail. Explain what it contributes, then develop the next paragraph yourself.
Connect it to each core theme
Identities
Your school is considering a multilingual welcome project.
Write an article for school-magazine readers. Explain the issue, develop an example and suggest a useful next step for your audience.
Theme connection: how language choices shape belonging.
Planning focus: What does your reader gain from this article?
Plan this taskExperiences
Your school is considering a student exchange programme.
Write an article for school-magazine readers. Explain the issue, develop an example and suggest a useful next step for your audience.
Theme connection: what students gain from an unfamiliar experience.
Planning focus: What does your reader gain from this article?
Plan this taskHuman ingenuity
Your school is considering an AI-supported language-learning app.
Write an article for school-magazine readers. Explain the issue, develop an example and suggest a useful next step for your audience.
Theme connection: how technology helps learners and where its limits lie.
Planning focus: What does your reader gain from this article?
Plan this taskSocial organization
Your school is considering a school peer-mentoring programme.
Write an article for school-magazine readers. Explain the issue, develop an example and suggest a useful next step for your audience.
Theme connection: how a community can support newcomers.
Planning focus: What does your reader gain from this article?
Plan this taskSharing the planet
Your school is considering a student-led food-waste project.
Write an article for school-magazine readers. Explain the issue, develop an example and suggest a useful next step for your audience.
Theme connection: how individuals and institutions can reduce waste.
Planning focus: What does your reader gain from this article?
Plan this taskTeach, practise and refine
- Read a real example of this text type and identify its readership and purpose.
- Annotate the model extract, then discuss how a different audience would change its wording.
- Select a theme task. Plan all required actions before writing; develop examples rather than listing them.
- Draft independently, review audience and task coverage, then revise one paragraph.
Teacher language
What does your reader gain from this article?
Support without fixing every sentence
Offer an audience–purpose planning grid, a few useful connectors and oral rehearsal. Then remove the paragraph openings and ask for independent wording. Extend by developing an alternative viewpoint or a justified qualification.
Self-check
- Have I addressed every instruction?
- Do the reader, purpose, tone and conventions match?
- Does each main idea have a developed example or explanation?
- Have I checked verb forms, reference, spelling and punctuation?