Directed response: recasting a text in a new form for a new audience

Learning objectives

Read the task to extract the required form, audience, purpose and word count, and plan a response that meets all four before beginning to write

Select and reorganise material from the source text, using only what the new purpose needs and inventing nothing that contradicts the original

Adopt the conventions of the required form, adjusting layout, register, sentence length, person and lexical choice to fit the new audience

Create a consistent voice for the new text, sustaining it from the opening line to the close rather than drifting back towards the style of the source

Control length and shape so that the response is complete within the stated word count, with a deliberate opening and a deliberate ending