Look at the following examples to see how to write in this style:
Question A
Your year group at school has decided to hold an event to raise money for the British Red Cross. You have some experience of doing this and need to prepare some information in which you offer advice to the year group planning the event.
You should include:
The type of event that will work well.
How to plan the event.
What targets to set.
How to avoid problems.
How to look after the money.
You have a list of things that you need to include. That’s a good starting point for your plan.
Introduce the information pack.
Introduce the subject, eg. 'The type of event that will work well', give some ideas, conclude and move on to the next point
Expand on the thesis and essay service:
planning the event, eg how the event will be organised
targets for the event, eg how many people you are expecting
problems, eg. explain what problems might come up and how you will tackle them
Conclude the whole piece of writing.
When writing to advise you should think about GAP;
What sort of genre or format do you need to use?
What is your intended audience?
What is the purpose of this writing?
Answer To the fundraisers in year 10.
We heard you are planning to raise money for the British Red Cross. That’s a great idea! We planned a fundraiser when we were in year 10 and thought you might like some advice.
1. An event that works
You need to get as many people as possible to give money, so think about an event that includes the whole school, staff as well, and maybe even the parents.
Last year, we sold sandwiches, pizza and cakes at break time from the school canteen. Lots of people came and bought food, including some of our parents.
You could also think about:
a non uniform day
collections in assembly
a sponsored event
2. Planning the Event
//It takes longer than you think to plan an event, so think about doing it next term. If you do a sponsored walk, for example, you will need to:
organise and distribute sponsorship forms
allow students long enough to collect sponsors
do the walk
allow time for the money to be collected//
3. Set a target
How many people do you want to involve? How much money do you want to raise? Probably the answer to both these questions is LOADS, but if you are too ambitious it will be harder to organise.
Try to set an amount of money that you want to raise, keep it realistic, only huge organisations such as Comic Relief can raise millions. Then think about how many people you would need to raise £10, for example, for you to reach your target. If you decide to raise £200, then you need 10 people to make £20 each. Is that too hard, or too easy?
4. How to avoid problems
You will need a detailed list of what needs to be organised. The easiest thing is to appoint one person to be in charge of each section. You need to make sure that you have regular meetings, so everybody knows what is going on. Setting some deadlines would be a good idea because it makes sure everyone gets on with their job. Maybe you could ask a form tutor to sit in on your meetings so that they don’t get too out of control.
The main thing is to be ORGANISED.
5. How to avoid money problems
//Once you have raised the money, you won’t want to loose it! Last year, we asked one of the administrative staff to be in charge of collecting it. You will have to ask nicely! They will need a list of all the people who collected money so they can be crossed off once they have given it in. The school will write a cheque to your charity once all the money is collected.
Good luck with it. We had really good fun last year when we did our cake sale and raised £200!//
Form x, year 11.